On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 14:20 +0200, Cedric Blancher wrote:
> On 22 September 2010 12:06, Ian Collins <i...@ianshome.com> wrote:
> > On 09/22/10 07:57 PM, Knut Reinert wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:50 PM, David Blake
> >> <davidblakeaus...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> is anyone planning an alternative to Illumos or a fork?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Given the ongoing BSD'tification of Illumos userland utilities I'd say
> >> it may be time to fork.
> >
> > So what to you propose as an alternative to the closed source bits of
> > OpenSolaris?
>
> Well, I see what's already there: Some of the closed utils are already
> there but not enabled in the ON tree:
sed and tail were done primarily, as I understand it, because of
problems with the ksh93 versions. Nobody has driven forward with the
ksh93 work. There are *easy* things that could be done,
like /usr/bin/printf, with ksh93, but still no integration.
I did "tr" because I urgently needed a tr fix, and the ksh93 version was
reported to me as being inadequate.
Note that ksh93 is not necessarily any more POSIX or SYSV compliant for
these utilities than say FreeBSD.
- Garrett
>
> /usr/bin/printf:
> http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2008/094/20080208_roland.mainz
> /usr/bin/sed, /usr/xpg4/bin/sed:
> http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2010/086/20100310_olga.kryzhanovska
> /usr/bin/tail, /usr/xpg4/bin/tail:
> http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/249/20090420_roland.mainz.2
> /usr/bin/od, /usr/xpg4/bin/od, /usr/bin/tr, /usr/xpg4/bin/tr,
> /usr/xpg6/bin/tr:
> svn://svn.genunix.org/on/branches/ksh93/gisburn/prototype040/usr/src/lib/libcmd/common/
> has versions of them, although tr has ben said as "need work for
> POSIX.2008" but good enough to compile ON.
>
> What I never understood is that Illumos choose to ignore this and did
> all the effort of porting the FreeBSD code to the Illumos gate. Either
> way one side wasted lots of time.
>
> Ced
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