For the folks on the project list: in the process of disabling the ksh93
builtins that are incompatible with their Solaris counterparts, Roland
has discovered that disabling getconf breaks the test suite.  There's
been some off-list discussion of how to handle that, mostly focusing on
the short-term approach for the initial integration into ON.  (More on
that in a future mail.)

>>>>> "April" == April Chin <April.Chin at eng.sun.com> writes:

April> Yes, the Solaris OS has three versions of getconf--
April> /usr/bin/getconf, /usr/xpg4/bin/getconf and
April> /usr/xpg6/bin/getconf.  A user who configures his path to conform
April> with SUSv2 or SUSv3 will expect to pick up the corresponding
April> getconf which will return different values.  In ksh93, executing
April> getconf with no pathname prefix, just "getconf...", will execute
April> the ksh93 getconf built-in which is incompatible with our getconf
April> binaries and will not work differently depending on the usr's
April> path.  Clearly we need to get this resolved before we replace
April> /usr/bin/ksh, but I'm not sure what the resolution is.

I thought we already had a plan for the general case of builtins, which
is that the behavior of the builtin would depend on $PATH?  Did I miss
something?

mike

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