Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:56:47 -0500
From: James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com>
Subject: Re: 2007/035 ksh93 Amendments
James Carlson writes:
> I'm sponsoring this fast-track request on behalf of April Chin and the
> ksh93 project team. Please note that this is an *open* case.
One possible point of concern here is the `getconf' duplication.
This project delivers a separate implementation of that feature, so
that we end up having two (the ksh93 one is a strict superset), and
they are to be kept in sync by means of additional testing.
And this observation prompts the obvious question of whether it would
be feasible to unify the two getconf implementations. Presumably such
a unification would have to be based on the ksh93/AST version, with
provisions made to hide the extra functionality when invoked in an
outside-of-ksh (or perhaps traditional Solaris) context.
-- Glenn
