>Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:38:52 -0700
>From: Joel Buckley <Joel.Buckley at sun.com>
>
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>I believe precedent is already set by "/usr/xpg6/bin/stty".
>
>My suggestion is to obsolete & EOF the xpg6 directory entirely:
>
>1. merge the remaining "/usr/xpg6/bin/*" utilities into "/usr/bin/*"
equivalents
>and replace "/usr/xpg6/bin/*" with softlink, consistent with "stty" below.
>
> /usr/xpg6/bin/stty=../../../usr/bin/stty l none SUNWxcu6
>
>2. After remaining "/usr/xpg6/..." entries are all softlinks to "/usr/..."
equivalents,
>the SUNWxcu6 packages could be simplified to the following and marked for
>End Of Feature (EOF) in the next appropriate Solaris release:
>
> /usr d none 0755 root sys SUNWxcu6
> /usr/xpg6=../usr l none SUNWxcu6
Hi Joel,
To do what you suggest, we must first agree that Sun will stop
supporting multiple, conflicting revisions of various standards
(especially the System V ABIs, the POSIX standards, and the Single UNIX
Specifications). That clearly IS NOT this case. Until we agree that
Sun should stop supporting multiple standards (and I don't see me ever
agreeing to that), I don't believe we will ever be able to have only
/usr/bin as the only directory needed to contain conforming
utilities). Even if everything else could magically be aligned, we
will need more than one version of the getconf utility. (Try the
commands:
/usr/bin/getconf _XOPEN_VERSION
/usr/xpg4/bin/getconf _XOPEN_VERSION
/usr/xpg6/bin/getconf _XOPEN_VERSION
to see one trivial difference.)
- Don
P.S. Note that this case continues to have status "closed approved
automatic 11/08/2006".
