On Monday 07 August 2006 10:54 pm, Darren J Moffat wrote: > What about POSIX and the Single UNIX Spec why aren't they good enough ? > > Solaris already has multiple personalities: > /usr/bin > /usr/xpg4/ > /usr/xpg5/ > /usr/xpg6/
No, I'm not opposed to that at all. > Unfortunately /usr/sfw was a bad implementation of what really should > have been noticed to be the GNU personality just like the xpg ones, > ie > /usr/gnu/ And therein lies a problem, that it does exist today, and /usr/gnu doesn't. I'm not saying it shouldn't, just that it doesn't today. > I'm actually starting to think that Nexenta's /usr/sun isn't that bad an > idea and maybe even Solaris should have that. That would mean that I > could do things like this: > > PATH=/usr/sun/bin:/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/bin Well, Erast mentioned to me recentely of discussion to provide a way of changing the personality to either a GNU or Sun/SysV style, and I quite like that idea. This would fit in with the branding of zones, IMO, and if I recall correctly it is something that Tim Marsland used to talk about in that regard (at least I remember talking to him about it). > That would mean that on Nexenta and on Solaris I would always prefer > the 'Solaris/Sun' version of a tool over the GNU one then what ever > is in /usr/bin. Maybe, depends on software you might be running, IMO.;-) IOW, I think this would work both ways. Xen compounds the possibilities. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
