William James wrote: > On 1/12/07, Mike Kupfer <mike.kupfer at sun.com> wrote: > > I got some good news about our being able to submit ON code to ATT for > > use in ksh93. > > > > > Outbound OSR #4715 is approved by everyone. > > > > > > It allows us to make contributions of OpenSolaris code to the ksh93 > > > project, using the Common Public License on the code we contribute. > > Could you elaborate on what this means for this project (I am new to > this list, please excuse me if I start asking silly things)?
AFAIK Mike/James did answer most of the part. The basic problem is that ksh93 implements the POSIX standard for any builtin command and does not include vendor-specific extensions. The approval we've got now means we can port some of the Solaris extensions (like the ACL extensions added to /usr/bin/chmod and needed for ZFS and NFSv4) to ksh93 and (more important) contribute them to "upstream" (David Korn && Glenn Fowler) which would simplify the maintaince, e.g. we would not have to maintain two versions of the same command (instead we share one implementation which is centered around the POSIX&co. standarts). ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
