[ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93 update 2 [PSARC/2009/063FastTrack timeout 02/09/2009]

2009-02-07 Thread Roland Mainz
Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: It's fine to make use of the ksh builtin support for various commands, but can we please learn from the problems that occurred when we changed sleep to be a builtin recently (e.g. 6793120) and instead create trivial wrapper *programs* that

ksh93 update 2 [PSARC/2009/063 FastTrack timeout 02/09/2009]

2009-02-07 Thread Roland Mainz
Scott Rotondo wrote: John Plocher wrote: Peter Tribble wrote: I know that I'm certainly not happy about ripping out Solaris commands and replacing them with external commands. Since Sun's management seems to have RIF'd the entire team that used to maintain those old Solaris commands,

Why print is not bound to a PATH element... / was: Re:[ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93 update 2 [PSARC/2009/063FastTrack timeout02/09/2009]

2009-02-07 Thread Roland Mainz
James Carlson wrote: Roland Mainz writes: 2. Restricted shell scripts (e.g. rsh, rksh, pfrksh [2] etc.) need a way to output data (e.g. counterpart to read) and therefore print was never bound to a PATH element since the korn shell exists. Otherwise you have shell scripts which can't

Why print is not bound to a PATH element... / was: Re:[ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93 update 2 [PSARC/2009/063FastTrack timeout02/09/2009]

2009-02-07 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roland Mainz roland.mainz at nrubsig.org wrote: OK; that's the key bit I was looking for. print is a built-in even when $PATH doesn't have a print on it, and binding would break that. Right (BTW: the same applies to printf and sleep) ... But sleep is a command that is available in every

[ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93 update 2 [PSARC/2009/063 FastTrack timeout 02/09/2009]

2009-02-07 Thread I. Szczesniak
Why aren't you going to replace head, join, mkfifo, tail and tee in this ARC case? Irek On 2/4/09, Roland Mainz roland.mainz at nrubsig.org wrote: 2. The next ARC case may contain a few more non-filesystem utilties (e.g. join, head, tail, tee, mkfifo) from libcmd and (as a seperare ARC

Member reply requested for 2008/772 Command Assistant

2009-02-07 Thread Mark Martin
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Garrett D'Amore gdamore at sun.com wrote: I don't think continuing this conversation is helpful. (I do have responses to your comments if you really want to hear them, but if we continue we should do so offline.) I'm on sabbatical anyway, so I'll abstain from

Fix for CR #6793120 ... / was: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93 u

2009-02-07 Thread Marc Glisse
If you start the command as seperate child job (e.g. $ sleep 12345 #) it will always have a seperate pid. But that was not the problem which caused CR #6793120 - the process name changed from sleep 12345 to something like ksh93 sleep 12345 which caused the PIT test scripts to fail

GNU Developer Collection [LSARC/2008/776 FastTrack timeout

2009-02-07 Thread Marc Glisse
01/07/2009] In-Reply-To: 498C6E5A.2000804 at sun.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 3) The GCC runtime libraries are built with SONAME set to the major version, e.g. libstdc++.so.6.0.10 SONAME is set to libstdc++.so.6. This