> The GNU utilities are not compatible with their > Solaris equavalents > and in some cases violate standards, best practices > or have bugs > which their authors refuse to fix.
That's right! And they refuse the fix things because they're just ignorant (at least the ones who didn't quit). > Except for GNU find and GNU tar which are buggy and > are known to be > buggy to the point that we can only assume that their > maintainers have > no interest in fixing them. How about our [I]Liebling[/I], the GNU C compiler, and friends? A classic one I just *adore* is allowing the use of "//" for comments inside of C source code... And that's just a beginning of a long and painful list of either crappy or broken things. Or both. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
