Roland Mainz wrote: > > Right... let's drop the "readlink" topic, please... > ... but a "registry" may be interesing... however my optinion is that > the GNU stuff should only end-up in /usr/bin/ if it fully passes the > POSIX test suite and is CSI-conformant. >
We don't require Posix conformance for our own software in /usr/bin. Posix is _one_ of the standards we follow, there are others. > > The issue is not about conflicting builtins - the issue is that GNU > "readlink" has options which won't work on all types of filesystems (and > are therefore not portable). But so does ln and mknod, so I don't understand your complaint. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."
