Please Joerg, no more updates on this mail thread. No more updates on this thread, anyone.
I'm trying hard to not crack down on anyone, nor invoke moderation. There are just too many personal attacks on this list now, and enough is enough. Ram On May 24, 2012 6:59 PM, "Joerg Schilling" < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 > Berlin > [email protected] (uni) > [email protected] (work) Blog: > http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily >
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