Joseph Kowalski wrote: > Stephen Hahn wrote: >>> >>> wes-1 "printenv", "whoami", and "users" are currently delivered in >>> solaris in /usr/ucb. Are the versions you propose to deliver >>> as part of this project upwards-compatible with the /usr/ucb >>> variants? >>> >> >> Unknown at this time. I am not sure that I agree that tools delivered >> in /usr/bin need to be upwards compatible with a specific >> environment's implementation, if that environment never delivered its >> implementations into the default path. >> > First, let me say that in the general case, I agree with Stephen. > > However, I'm not sure that /usr/ucb/bin isn't a special case. Many > moons ago, to > transition from Solaris 1 to Solaris 2, we encouraged: > > PATH=/usr/ucb/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin > > and then later encouraged: > > PATH=/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb/bin > > My point is this might be rather common. Then again, it may be so > many moons > ago that it doesn't matter. > > Hence, in the interest of due diligence, I'd request the team to > evaluate the degree > of compatibility. (I suspect they are probably pretty close.) Finding > them incompatable > does not automatically create a problem. We should just know. > > - jek3 Seeing additional mail along this thread, these utilities are indeed compatable - or compatible enough for me. (Its 90%+ that gnu and our manpage are right about users and our implementation is wrong.)
- jek3
