I. Szczesniak wrote:
> On 10/31/07, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
>> I. Szczesniak wrote:
>> No one has ever promised /usr/gnu/bin would be POSIX compliant.
>
> I disagree. POSIX violations are BUGS and have to be fixed, otherwise
> interoperability between systems is completely gone. Or are you saying
> that Sun intends to ship the GNU tools as cheap 'outsourced'
> alternative to the Sys5 tools and then refuse support, even in
> violation of our support contract?
The whole point of having /usr/gnu/bin is as an alternative implementation
to /usr/bin because the /usr/bin one is being kept for backwards compatibility
and/or standards compliance - as long as there is one POSIX compliant version
of the command on the system, why must every version in every PATH be compliant?
> In that case I better start
> archiving this discussion that our legal department can review this if
> Sun refuses to fulfill the support contact requirements.
Then I had better stop responding after this, since I am not an authorized
Sun spokesman, and no one on any OpenSolaris list is speaking on behalf of
Sun. If you're going to get legal about it, go through formal channels to
Sun and take it off of OpenSolaris.org now.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
