UNIX admin wrote: >> This is debatable ... Can you provide pros and cons >> for this from your >> point of view? >> > > For example, I have a package that delivers /.cshrc, /.login and /.logout. If you prefer /bin/sh for root's shell, then why on earth are you installing CSH login files of all things? (Friends don't let friends use CSH! ;) ) > Determining root's home directory via public interfaces is unreliable, namely > because such public interfaces aren't well defined. I could look directly > into /etc/passwd, but as "Indiana" clearly shows now, there is no guarantee > whatsoever, that home directory field will be at a fixed position. I could > also use `finger`, but there's no guarantee that the output won't change, > thereby breaking my regex parser for it. For crying out loud, they broke the > output of `uname -a`. > I'm not sure, but I think getent is a stable interface. > The promise of SunOS is that it would remain backward and forward compatible; > that is why environments that need to be super-stable and super-reliable > prefer it over any other operating system. > > Solars (from Sun) I beleive will always have that stability.
I haven't been around here long enough to know for sure, but I'm not positive that OpenSolaris won't be more aof a playground to try new things in. That said, I too don't like the trend of doing things in any Solaris 'because that's what people coming from linux will expect'. If and when linux does something for a reason the community thinks is worthwhile, then I'm all for reviewing it and considering it. I'm not for blindly copying though. I think it should be given the engineering consideration that I feel Solaris is well known for. In the case of root's home, this might mean (note: I haven't give this much thought, it's just an example:) that if moving root's home was a good idea, we may want to default it to /export/home/root, and ship an /etc/auto_home that will lofs mount it from there to /home/root automatically. For BASH, while I use BASH personally, I am very surprised that anyone would change root's shell to it. I know it's very backwards compatible, but I've always steered clear of that because I don't knwo what assumptionsmight be made in the OS, or any other 3rd party software, and I don't want to get bit. -Kyle _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
