Garrett D'Amore wrote: > I've posted a draft opinion "filename opinion-draft.txt" (and also .ms) > in the case directory for review. Its attached to this message as > well. Thanks. [snip] > 3. Interfaces > > The project exports the following interfaces. > > _______________________________________________ > | Interfaces Exported | > |_________________|________________|__________| > |Interface | Classification| Comments| > |_________________|________________|__________| > |/usr/bin/ls | Committed | | > |/usr/xpg4/bin/ls | Committed | | > |/usr/xpg6/bin/ls | Committed | | > |_________________|________________|__________|
I have a small request: For the commands replaced by the AT&T AST commands (currently done via the ksh93-integration project) we _carefully_ investigated which options+features (including long options) are available by which implementation (e.g. we investigated Solaris/SystemV, GNU, BSD and AST implementations). Technically we only made options "Commited" (or added them to the AST codebase) which are implemented identically by two or more implementations and must exist for >= two years and set-up the rule that options+features which are only available in one implementation or exist since less than two years must be "Uncommited" (to avoid that the implementation somehow changes and therefore breaks a "Commited" interface). IMO it may be nice to 1) apply the same set of rules to /usr/bin/ls, /usr/xpg4/bin/ls and /usr/bin/xpg6/bin/ls and 2) make options which are somehow "disputed" in this case either "Uncommited" or "Volatile" (I can help with that on demand since we already know the drill from ksh93-integration update1+update2+ammendents+etc.). ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;)
