Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> The tricky part is dealing with the subtle semantic differences. For
> example, what does date +%C output? For /usr/bin, its the default
> strftime output. For standard conforming date it is the century
> number. (Which means you should never use %C in a date format string in
> a portable shell script! :-) Its these kinds of legacy Sun semantics
> that I think we can finally bite the bullet and eliminate, offering the
> POSIX conformant semantics instead.
Or at least restrict the ancient Sun semantics to the versions called
from /usr/has/bin, or /usr/sunos/bin, or whatever it ends up being called.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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