[email protected] wrote: > [ I've moved opensolaris-discuss to the Bcc ] > > > The utilities in question do not support Linux specific features. Why do you > > believe you will be able to feed back such enhancements for Solaris to the > > upstream? > > Is it your personal experience that this is the case or can you point > to mail archives where such patches were rejected? I'm not saying that > you're incorrect here but I'd be surprised if *all* such upstream > communities rejected such patches. I'd appreciate some pointers to > their policies in this space.
I cannot point you to the related discussions but this seems to be an obvious fact. Please note that e.g. RedHat steal some ACL/Extattr support-code from star and put it into the redhat local GNU tar source. Since this happened, there have been at least two major GNU tar releases but the feature did not appear in the upstream source. If you look at the command structure on Linux in general, you see many small and hacky programs from the authors of the related kernel features but none of the GNU tools that I would expect to support such features offers an integrated solution. I would guess that the related discussions are not open and happen between the distributors and the upstream authors in private. 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 _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
