On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, Roland Mainz wrote:
> Alan Burlison wrote:
>> Roland Mainz wrote:
>>> Grumpf... we had this discussion and I thought we solved this detail a
>>> _year_ ago. We had this discussion _multiple_ times and again: SFW is
>>> _unsuited_ for ksh93. I explaind the reasons for that multiple times.
>>> How many times should I repeat myself ?
>>> <insert-smiley-for-battered-engineer-sulking-around>
>>
>> C'm on Roland, grit your teeth and drive on through the pain, you are
>> nearly at the finish line,
>
> Unfortunately this is not the finish line, only the first checkpoint. We
> have lots of other things on the ToDo list, including "shcomp" (shell
> script compiler (and the "shbinexec" kernel glue)), kshdbx, Dtrace
> support for ksh93, switching over the consumers of alias.sh,
> /usr/bin/sleep&&/usr/bin/test switchover, more builtin command issues,
> pfksh93 bickering (or better: RBAC vs. POSIX behaviour), /usr/bin/ksh
> migration to ksh93, development of a libshell API which matches the
> stabilty requirements of OS/Net, killing more bugs, threading support in
> ksh93 (e.g. make libshell's interface threadsafe and add support for
> multiple worker threads in a subshell instance), aiding others to use
> ksh93 features in their shell scripts (e.g. each time I look at webrev I
> could scream. And scripts like "bfu" and /opt/onbld/bin/acr are
> canidates for the worst mixture of Bourne/Korn-style coding ever seen in
> history, right after some of the SMF scripts). And somewhere between
> these items I need a real-world job and a faster build machine because
> my Ultra5 _sucks_ (sorry for using explicit languauge but waiting two
> days for a build to finish with "yet another build error" ("... please
> fix and rebuild from scratch, see you with another error in two
> days...") isn't really something which makes me happy right now... ;-(
> ).
Roland,
What is your preferred hardware built environment to help you complete
the ksh93 integration project. Please describe 3 configs:
1) maxxed out config
2) reasonable, middle-of-the-road config
3) minimally useful config (and I know a U5 does not meet this
requirement)
Are you looking for SPARC or x86/AMD64 hardware or both.
Please detail your requirements and I'll see what I can to to allieve
the pain.
Regards,
Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. al at logical-approach.com
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