On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Dave Miner <[email protected]> wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: >> Dave Miner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> My opinion is that the GNU utilities should be modified, with >>> modifications fed back upstream, so that we get maximum leverage going >> >> 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? >> > > Because I'm an optimist? There's trying and failing, and then there's > failing to try. > > I won't speculate on why the Linux distributors have made the choices > they have since I'm uninformed there, but the case of ACL's which are > standardized in NFSv4 would seem to be less a matter of OS-specific > features than lacking support for standards.
What about extended attributes? Are those standardized enough that the implementation on Solaris would not be considered Solaris specific? Their support also an issue for chmod and ls. _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
