On 3/25/06, Casper.Dik at sun.com <Casper.Dik at sun.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >> So besides "sleep", the other ksh93 builtins that are not Solaris ksh
> >> builtins (and not Solaris binaries) are getconf and printf.
> >> Are there dependencies on these being ksh93 builtins?
> >>
> >> And there are the builtins from libcmd, which are not available
> >> by default, but seem to be activated via "builtin <command name>"
> >> although I am able to activate only a subset in ksh93:
> >>
> >> basename
> >> cat
> >> chmod
> >> cmp
> >> cut
> >> dirname
> >> head
> >> logname
> >> mkdir
> >> uname
> >> wc
> >>
> >> Would ksh93 users need to have these builtins available?
> >>
> >
> >printf is needed since it contains extensions that are not
> >in the standard printf that are used in several shell scripts.
> >
> >The ones on this list are provided primarily for performance since
> >builtins are 10 to 100 times as fast.
>
> There are, of course, many issues with the compatibility of the
> builtins and the Solaris versions; e.g., chmod has grown a number
> of new options relating to ACLs recently.
Which options do you mean? IMO it would be a good thing when the
manual pages themselves reflect such changes, e.g. in which release an
option was added, removed or changed.
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