John Plocher <John.Plocher at Sun.COM> wrote:
> The point where your comments are a bit on-topic is in the compatibility
> discussion we are having over in <trademark-policy-dev>. Obviously,
> simply having a tool called "/usr/bin/tar" isn't enough to be
> "compatible", you also need to adhere to some behavioral standard.
A program named tar is not part of the POSIX standard.
A program named tar is defined in SUSv2 but POSIX is based on SUSv3.
> The real question is "which standard?"
>
> Ship "Sun's old crufty Sys5 tools" in /usr/bin and you alienate
> the GNU-Linux crowd who consider being different from GNU to
> be a bug;
POSIX requires you to call:
PATH=`getconf PATH`
sh
to get a POSIX compliant environment.
J?rg
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