James Carlson wrote: > Roland Mainz writes: [snip] > > And I am "disputing" that place now for the > > "stat" and "readlink" builtins (and for "open", "close", "poll" which > > were explicitly developed for the ksh93-integration project on Sun's > > request (there aren't matching GNU tools for these right now but I am > > listing them for completeness...)) - claws raised and ready to fight... > > I think the ship has sailed.
;-(( > The first and simplest option available at this point would be to try > to convince the project team for 2007/048 (Stephen Hahn seems to be > the right contact here) to alter or withdraw those components for > which you see a conflict. I am discussing the issue with him right now... > Failing that (and you should at least try that first), the right > answer is to appeal that previous decision to ARC chairs. Ouch... ;-( > I think we > can probably drum up the required support if that's necessary. > > The way I read it, though, I don't see a conflict here under the > original /usr/gnu case. Nothing else actually *delivers* those things > to /usr/bin, so there's no conflict, and they do not need to be > renamed. No, we don't deliver "open"/"close"/"poll"/"stat"/"readlink"/etc. because these and many other builtins were removed from PSARC 2006/550 because I tried to be "nice" and avoid another large chunk of work for the initial ARC case (we already had enougth controversial items like libcmd and the 64bit stuff in that case and more items like bindings for /usr/xpg6/bin/ or a fight for "open"/"close"/"poll"/"stat"/etc. looked like "too much"...). Problem is now that my attempt to be friendly now backfires badly... ;-( ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
