Darren Reed <Darren.Reed at sun.com> wrote:
> I'm led to believe that OpenSolaris won't pass the testing required to
> be labelled Unix (the problems start with ZFS: there are parts of it
> that aren't POSIX compliant) and as far as I know, nobody is interested
> in doing so. This has been known for quite some time. It is looking more
> and more like Solaris 10 will be the last "UNIX" from Oracle. So that
> "battle" has already been lost.
Hi Darren, for passing the POSIX compliance test, the system just needs to
behave POSIXly correct after you called:
PATH=`getconf PATH`
sh
> Darren
>
> On 23/03/10 09:24 PM, Octave Orgeron wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I agree Jason. And I still want to voice the need for the new OGB to have a
> > community conference to define the standards for OpenSolaris. Things like
> > this should be decided in the open as a community. I'd even like to see a
> > real standard created that will help defuse these issues and provide
> > consistency. Last time I checked, Solaris is UNIX no Linux. The same should
> > be true for OpenSolaris. GNU should be nothing more than another userland
> > flavor under /usr/gnu with g* sym-links in /usr/bin. The default userland
> > tools should be POSIX and Open Group Single Unix Specification compliant.
> > Enhancing our userland tools is the way to go, not taking the short-cut to
> > GNU and selling out.
I would like to see the Solaris userland retained and well maintained. There
are contributions from the community and it would be nice if these contributions
could find their way into OpenSolaris.
I would like to see the AST tools as one _additional_ flavor on OpenSolaris.
This may make it necessary to switch off some ksh93 builtins in case that
the user selected the Solaris userland flavor.
I also like to see the GNU tools as _additive_ option for users.
And there also seems to be a demand from the uers to have the Schily tools
delivered by default with OpenSolaris.
>From the discussions at CeBIT and in different locations during the past year,
it seems that paying Solaris customers like the Solaris userland to be kept.
Let us give everybody the opportunity to use his preferred flavor and let us
give everybody the opportunity to select the best tool variant for a specific
use case.
J?rg
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