Sriram Narayanan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Joerg: On the one hand, you write authoritatively about POSIX, and at
> least Moinak and I like some of your tools. but on the other hand,
> there are accusations about you trying to push in your tools, about
> your lying about POSIX standards, etc. While I personally welcome your
The only person, who could be identified as lying about POSIX is Irek.
If you have questions about the POSIX standard, please ask...
If you like to have civil discussions, please find a way to restrict those who
attack others.
Some people in this list have a very offensive discussion style. I am not sure
whether this is something that is inherent to people with english as
mothertongue or whether this is specific to some persons. Fortunately, the
indian people I know from the OpenSolaris core developer meetings seem to be
very friendly.
Back to "my" tools:
- Sun made a definitve decision to include Star in Solaris in 2004 and
only the make file framework for integration was missing. This is the
past now since 2 years, as I wrote the makefiles for the OpenSolaris
build framework (after it turned out that Roland Mainz who promised to
write them wil never do it), so let us stop to discuss this - star
integration was done.
- Most other software that is discussed here (that I am working on) is
Solaris sources that I enhanced over the years. At the same time,
other people (such as Irek) try to promote software they are working
on and that is not originally from Solaris.
- Illumos added a od(1) replacement from Garret even though it has known
proven bugs. It is your decision whether you like to have a slow
and buggy od(1) from Garret or whether you like a POSIX compliant,
SVID compliant and faster od(1) from me.
I hope that there is a way to have tecnically based discussons in the future
and that people who usually pop up when they believe there is something they
can use for a dispute will stay elsewhere.
Jörg
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