I'm not going to code the getconf builtin to use the hidden
sun __xpg* process global vars
the code is table driven and I adjusted the table to defer to the getconf on
$PATH
all vars known to be different between the { default xpg4 xpg6 } getconf
variants
new alpha tarballs posted at www.research.att.com/sw/download/alpha:
INIT.2006-12-04.tgz
INIT.2006-12-04.md5
ast-ksh.2006-12-04.tgz
ast-ksh.2006-12-04.md5
-- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ --
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:59:05 -0800 Lee Damico wrote:
> Hi Roland,
> Are you suggesting new flags for getconf to specify the appropriate
> runtime environment (e.g. -xpg4 or -xpg6)? I don't think that's meets
> the requirements of the specification. Or are you suggesting a single
> getconf with wrappers in the xpg specific directories that essentially
> call the single getconf with the appropriate flag to determine default,
> xpg4, or xpg6 environments?
> Regards,
> Lee
> these were initially set up this way.
> Roland Mainz wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > ----
> >
> > Taking a look at
> > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/lib/common/common/values-xpg6.c
> > - is it "legal" in Solaris to set the standard "selector" variables at
> > runtime, e.g.
> > -- snip --
> > extern unsigned int __xpg6;
> > extern int __xpg4;
> > unsigned int saved_xpg6;
> > int saved__xpg4;
> >
> > /* some code */
> >
> > /* save standard flags ... */
> > saved_xpg6 = __xpg6;
> > saved__xpg4 = __xpg4;
> >
> > /* set standard flags to null (to emulate /usr/bin/getconf) */
> > __xpg6 = 0U;
> > __xpg4 = 0;
> >
> > /* run query */
> > run_query_standard_function();
> >
> > /* restore standard flags */
> > __xpg6 = saved_xpg6;
> > __xpg4 = saved__xpg4;
> > -- snip --
> >
> > Is this "valid" usage, e.g. could this be used to create one unified
> > version of the native "getconf" command in Solaris instead of shipping
> > three different binaries (e.g. /usr/bin/getconf, /usr/xpg4/bin/getconf
> > and /usr/xpg6/bin/getconf) ?
> >
> > ----
> >
> > Bye,
> > Roland
> >
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