I am sponsoring this case for Roland Mainz (an OpenSolaris contributor)
and April Chin (acting as sponsor for this work).
I believe it qualifies for closed approved automatic status. If a
PSARC member disagrees, let me know and I will upgrade it to a
fast-track case.
Sincerely,
Don
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1. Introduction
1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
Remove /usr/bin/printf from PSARC case 2008 094
1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
Author: Donald Cragun
1.3 Date of This Document:
17 September, 2008
4. Technical Description
This case updates PSARC/2008/094 (ksh93 Update 1).
While implementing PSARC/2008/094, which (among other things) planned
to replace /usr/bin/printf with a link to the AT&T AST printf, the
project team found some irregularities in standards conformance in both
the default printf() function in libc and in the behavior of
/usr/bin/printf.
Since some of these issues may involve official interpretation requests
against the POSIX Standards and the Single UNIX Specifications, they
may take a long time to resolve. Therefore, this case removes the
changes to /usr/bin/printf that were documented in PSARC/2008/094 from
the deliverables provided by that case so PSARC/2008/094 changes can
be integrated in a timely manner.
Since the current /usr/bin/printf will not be changed by this case,
there are no backwards compatibility issues.
6. Resources and Schedule
6.4. Steering Committee requested information
6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
ON
6.5. ARC review type: Automatic
6.6. ARC Exposure: open
