James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [trimmed cc list; it was getting ugly]
>
> Garrett D'Amore writes:
> > Have the extensions escaped in to the wild? (By that, I mean, have they
> > been released to Solaris 10 customers?
>
> Yes, the new code went out with S10u3 -- the December 2006 release
> entitled 11/06. ;-}
>
> Actually, the extensions are *far* older than that. They're
> compatible with the extensions present in Trusted Solaris 8 and
> previous releases. My time machine is on the fritz right now, but
> otherwise I'd volunteer to go back and help change that release.
POSIX.1-2001 predates TS-8
> > If they have _not_ escaped into Solaris 10, then can I suggest that
> > Joerg, who's obviously an expert in these details, and who seems to care
> > passionately about it, figure out how to reimplement the features to be
> > more compliant with POSIX 2001.1? He can send diffs to the tar folks,
>
> In the spirit of a review, no such code diffs or design figuring would
> really have needed to have been done. Instead, noting the difference
> between the two standards and asking the project team (during ARC or
> design review) to consider the newer standard would have been fair.
>
> I can't predict exactly how that alternate reality would have played
> out, but I strongly suspect the answer would have been, "thanks, but
> we have TS8 customers who need to upgrade to TX in S10, and tar
> compatibility is a key part of that story."
>
> > For the case of PSARC, if there is not a PSARC case for these
> > extensions, then can a PSARC representative kindly slap the project team
> > that integrated these features on the wrist? Changes that are customer
>
> No slap needed, as best I can tell. It's in PSARC 2005/723.
Which has not been approved in the public.
Jörg
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