More ksh93 builtins [PSARC/2010/095 FastTrack timeout 03/25/2010]

2010-03-19 Thread Norm Jacobs
On 03/18/10 09:54 PM, Sebastien Roy wrote: Norm, On 03/18/10 07:57 PM, Norm Jacobs wrote: It's not that I don't think that the ksh93 built-ins have a place and that they couldn't be a perfectly reasonable default for most people. In some cases, they seem to provide something that is sorely

More ksh93 builtins [PSARC/2010/095 FastTrack timeout 03/25/2010]

2010-03-19 Thread Norm Jacobs
On 03/19/10 07:19 AM, Sebastien Roy wrote: Norm, On 03/19/10 04:34 AM, Norm Jacobs wrote: I think that in part, I misread this: Interface Stability Description - - --- ksh93 '/usr/gnu/bin/basename' built in Uncommitted basename utility with GNU extensions

More ksh93 builtins [PSARC/2010/095 FastTrack timeout 03/25/2010]

2010-03-18 Thread Norm Jacobs
I'm not a member of PSARC and can't actually vote here, but I would have to give this case a -1. It's not that I don't think that the ksh93 built-ins have a place and that they couldn't be a perfectly reasonable default for most people. In some cases, they seem to provide something that is

GCC4: The GNU Compiler Collection 4.X [LSARC/2009/575 FastTrack timeout 10/28/2009]

2009-10-23 Thread Norm Jacobs
Raj Prakash wrote: This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: GCC4: The GNU Compiler Collection 4.X 4. Technical Description: 4.1. Details: Commands will be installed in /usr/bin with versioned suffixes,

GCC4: The GNU Compiler Collection 4.X [LSARC/2009/575 FastTrack timeout 10/28/2009]

2009-10-23 Thread Norm Jacobs
George Vasick wrote: Norm Jacobs wrote: Raj Prakash wrote: This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: GCC4: The GNU Compiler Collection 4.X 4. Technical Description: 4.1. Details: Commands will be installed

CUPS as the default print service [PSARC/2009/514 FastTrack timeout 10/02/2009]

2009-09-30 Thread Norm Jacobs
Milan Jurik wrote: Hi, Norm Jacobs p??e v ?t 29. 09. 2009 v 13:51 -0500: Garrett D'Amore wrote: [...] 2) Are there any plans to enhance CUPS to distributed network printer configuration via NIS? Or is there a replacement for this service already present? (I guess

CUPS as the default print service [PSARC/2009/514 FastTrack timeout 10/02/2009]

2009-09-29 Thread Norm Jacobs
Garrett D'Amore wrote: +1. I think this will be a big help. I've a few questions (which probably count as not this case) though: 1) Upgrades -- will upgrades (or pkg image-update) switch the service, or leave the existing setting? Venky can correct me if I am wrong here, but I believe that

Amendment to sox [LSARC/2009/445 FastTrack timeout 08/27/2009]

2009-08-18 Thread Norm Jacobs
Ok, I get the 64-bit libraries, but I have to ask about the 64 bit commands in /usr/bin/... What do they buy us? Are they necessary? Shouldn't you be isaexec()ing here? Is there a 64-bit pkgconfig file? -Norm Brian Cameron wrote: 5. Interface changes since LSARC 2008/706:

Update Perl to version 5.10.x [PSARC/2009/315 FastTrack timeout 06/02/2009]

2009-05-27 Thread Norm Jacobs
I. Szczesniak wrote: On 5/26/09, James Carlson James.D.Carlson at sun.com wrote: Rich Burridge writes: Perl 5.10.x is binary-incompatible with 5.8.x, so it will be necessary to declare 5.8.x EOF in OpenSolaris, and remove it in a later version. A

jar file man pages - was Re: trove-2.0.4 [LSARC/2009/262 FastTrack timeout 05/05/2009]

2009-05-14 Thread Norm Jacobs
Jim Walker wrote: For LSARC, PSARC and the opinion writer(s) to consider Michael Kearney wrote: 1. Lloyd, I like the idea of your annotation but have a couple of concerns. - Would teams be expected to update third party, open source jar files with the annotation? - Would

pywbem Ver 0.7 [LSARC/2009/258 FastTrack timeout 05/05/2009]

2009-05-13 Thread Norm Jacobs
Python 3.0 has been ARC'd, but hasn't delivered yet. You can ARC the python 3.0 pywbem interfaces now, but presumably you want python 3.0 to deliver them. -Norm Vivek Titarmare wrote: It's Ok. I will re-add the 3.0 version to the prototype_com Best Regards, ~Vivek R. Titarmare

Amendments to pconsole fast-track [PSARC/2009/275 FastTrack timeout 05/08/2009]

2009-05-08 Thread Norm Jacobs
Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote: If a user has run su in one terminal, any other terminal can be used to control su; this includes any form of malware. I wdon't want to change it because it still allows privilege escalation. Not really. If the user has escalated privilege in one

Amendments to pconsole fast-track [PSARC/2009/275 FastTrack timeout 05/08/2009]

2009-05-07 Thread Norm Jacobs
Gary Winiger wrote: IMO, this case should be withdrawn and the bug should be fixed. If I'm wrong about the bug, then the case should be reintroduced with rational as to why there isn't a bug and what the policy really should be for TIOCSTI. I'll give the project team

Amendments to pconsole fast-track [PSARC/2009/275 FastTrack timeout 05/08/2009]

2009-05-07 Thread Norm Jacobs
Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote: Norm, 4) Conclusion on privs/uids. Nit: the exec_attr entry s/suser/solaris/ Is it really the euid that matters, or is it that euid=0 gives privs=all? I don't know how to answer the tiocsti question. I'm not sure that's

Amendments to pconsole fast-track [PSARC/2009/275 FastTrack timeout 05/08/2009]

2009-05-07 Thread Norm Jacobs
Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: Gary Winiger wrote: IMO, this case should be withdrawn and the bug should be fixed. If I'm wrong about the bug, then the case should be reintroduced with rational as to why there isn't a bug and what the policy really should be for TIOCSTI.

Amendments to pconsole fast-track [PSARC/2009/275 FastTrack timeout 05/08/2009]

2009-05-06 Thread Norm Jacobs
Gary Winiger wrote: /etc/security/prof_attr: Parallel Console Access:::Connect to remote consoles with pconsole: To whom/how is this Rights Profile granted? Also note that a help file needs to come with the addition of a Rights Profile. See:

Amendments to pconsole fast-track [PSARC/2009/275 FastTrack timeout 05/08/2009]

2009-05-05 Thread Norm Jacobs
Nicolas Williams wrote: On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:34:29PM -0500, Norm Jacobs wrote: James Carlson wrote: Norm Jacobs writes: TIOCSTI appears to require elevated privilege. streamio.c appears to do the auth checking in the kernel using secpolicy_sti(), which equates

Amendments to pconsole fast-track [PSARC/2009/275 FastTrack timeout 05/08/2009]

2009-05-04 Thread Norm Jacobs
James Carlson wrote: Norm Jacobs writes: TIOCSTI appears to require elevated privilege. streamio.c appears to do the auth checking in the kernel using secpolicy_sti(), which equates If you issue it on the controlling tty for this process and you have at least read access

beanshell [PSARC/2009/270 FastTrack timeout 05/06/2009]

2009-04-29 Thread Norm Jacobs
Joerg Schilling wrote: Garrett D'Amore gdamore at sun.com wrote: My only small concern with this project is the name bsh. ISTR being on other systems where bsh meant the Bourne Shell. It seems like beansh might be a better name here to avoid possible confusion. But if this is

beanshell [PSARC/2009/270 FastTrack timeout 05/06/2009]

2009-04-29 Thread Norm Jacobs
Joerg Schilling wrote: Norm Jacobs Norm.Jacobs at sun.com wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Garrett D'Amore gdamore at sun.com wrote: My only small concern with this project is the name bsh. ISTR being on other systems where bsh meant the Bourne Shell. It seems like

hal-cups-utils [PSARC/2009/240 FastTrack timeout 04/21/2009]

2009-04-14 Thread Norm Jacobs
Danek Duvall wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 02:19:34AM -0700, James Walker wrote: /usr/lib/cups/backend/halVolatileCUPS backend /usr/lib/hal/hal_lpadmin VolatileHAL hot-plug action Aren't these really Private? Danek Yes, they

Integrate ngrep into Solaris [PSARC/2008/562 FastTrack timeout 09/11/2008]

2008-09-10 Thread Norm Jacobs
Darren J Moffat wrote: Brian Utterback wrote: James Carlson wrote: Creating a separate tiny root package allows the owner of a system with writable RBAC files but without a writable '/usr' to install the necessary bits to make this feature work. If it's done as you're suggesting, as a

Integrate ngrep into Solaris [PSARC/2008/562 FastTrack timeout 09/11/2008]

2008-09-10 Thread Norm Jacobs
Brian Utterback wrote: Norm Jacobs wrote: orphaning that may occur. There are several components in SFW that already deliver root packages with RBAC entries. But only one (SUNWmkcdr) delivers nothing else. What do you see as the problem here? In this particular case, I doubt that you

Integrate ngrep into Solaris [PSARC/2008/562 FastTrack timeout 09/11/2008]

2008-09-10 Thread Norm Jacobs
I care enough to want to see the root package added to this case. -Norm Brian Utterback wrote: The case was approved with only a single package and separate integration into ON. Does anybody care enough to want to re-open the case, or are we really just talking about getting IPS

2008/475 SWIG for Open Solaris

2008-08-01 Thread Norm Jacobs
While I agree with you in principle, we should be building all of Solaris with Studio, there are cases where using Studio is not really worth the effort. There are several open source components out there that seem to make heavy use of GCC extensions or what I more lovingly like to think of

pyCups 1.9.38 [PSARC/2008/273 Self Review]

2008-05-06 Thread Norm Jacobs
I am sending this out be cause Wendy is out sick. Please let me know if there are any issues by Thursday May 8th. -Norm I am creating this self-review on behalf of Norm Jacobs. Though there are not current plans to backport this technology, it is for patch/micro release binding

CUPS 1.3.6 [PSARC/2008/130]

2008-03-19 Thread Norm Jacobs
Norm Jacobs wrote: In my original materials for PSARC/2008/130 CUPS 1.3.6 I designated an interface stability of Volatile for the libcups and libcupsimage interfaces. I don't believe that we are likely to see incompatible change in these interfaces from the open source project

CUPS 1.3.6 [PSARC/2008/130]

2008-03-19 Thread Norm Jacobs
Garrett D'Amore wrote: Norm Jacobs wrote: Norm Jacobs wrote: In my original materials for PSARC/2008/130 CUPS 1.3.6 I designated an interface stability of Volatile for the libcups and libcupsimage interfaces. I don't believe that we are likely to see incompatible change

CUPS 1.3.6 [PSARC/2008/130]

2008-03-19 Thread Norm Jacobs
Garrett D'Amore wrote: Norm Jacobs wrote: Garrett D'Amore wrote: Norm Jacobs wrote: Norm Jacobs wrote: In my original materials for PSARC/2008/130 CUPS 1.3.6 I designated an interface stability of Volatile for the libcups and libcupsimage interfaces. I don't believe that we are likely

CUPS 1.3.6 [PSARC/2008/130]

2008-03-19 Thread Norm Jacobs
James Carlson wrote: Norm Jacobs writes: to accommodate the realities of today. Given what I am trying to acheive, perhaps Uncommitted Obsolete would be more appropriate. This is just a minor nit, but I'd suggest using Obsolete Committed. Obsolete Uncommitted is possible

CUPS 1.3.6 [PSARC/2008/130]

2008-03-18 Thread Norm Jacobs
In my original materials for PSARC/2008/130 CUPS 1.3.6 I designated an interface stability of Volatile for the libcups and libcupsimage interfaces. I don't believe that we are likely to see incompatible change in these interfaces from the open source project and there are potentially a number

[osol-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-14 Thread Norm Jacobs
Actually, we have a cooperative process for dealing with this kind of thing. It's call ARCing. Joerg Schilling wrote: Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: For this reason, the compare from imagemagick either needs to be renamed or it needs to be put into a different directory. Your

[osol-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-14 Thread Norm Jacobs
Joerg Schilling wrote: Norm Jacobs Norm.Jacobs at Sun.COM wrote: Your argument there is with the open source community. It's the ImageMagick open source project that chose the name compare for their program. Yes, we did choose to place it in /usr/bin along with the rest

PSARC/2007/499 Automatic discovery of network attached printers

2007-09-11 Thread Norm Jacobs
Artem Kachitchkine wrote: Nicolas Williams wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 12:50:43PM -0700, Danek Duvall wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 02:12:18PM -0500, Norm Jacobs wrote: I can envision a time when we might want to update it to recognize more device types. If we were to break this down

PSARC/2007/499 Automatic discovery of network attached printers

2007-09-04 Thread Norm Jacobs
Danek Duvall wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 04:19:46PM -0500, Norm Jacobs wrote: The hald-addon-network-discovery module could be used to detect other types of network attached devices, like scanners or storage, but it is specifically looking for printers. The hald-probe-network

PSARC/2007/499 Automatic discovery of network attached printers

2007-09-04 Thread Norm Jacobs
Danek Duvall wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 02:12:18PM -0500, Norm Jacobs wrote: Danek Duvall wrote: Okay. Isn't it strange, then, that you're assigning the Printer Management profile to the SMF service instances when those instances could be discovering things other than Printers

PSARC/2007/499 Automatic discovery of network attached printers

2007-08-30 Thread Norm Jacobs
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 10:34 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: I'm not sure that secure-by-default does require that this be off. As I understand this case it is egress probing not a daemon listening of ingress requests. So we're ok at the transport layer, but

PSARC/2007/499 Automatic discovery of network attached printers

2007-08-30 Thread Norm Jacobs
Erik Nordmark wrote: Artem Kachitchkine wrote: An example network attached printer entry looks remarkably like this: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/network_attached/192_168_0_15' What would happen if a user has a printer at work at (private) IP address 192.168.0.15, and has a

PSARC/2007/499 Automatic discovery of network attached printers

2007-08-30 Thread Norm Jacobs
Gary Winiger wrote At least some of what people send to printers tends to be sensitive. And for TX, I'd hope this is covered. How does this project relate to TX? Does HAL run in each of the labeled zones and pick up network printers at that label? Artem can

PSARC/2007/499 Automatic discovery of network attached printers

2007-08-30 Thread Norm Jacobs
John Plocher wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: I'm not sure that secure-by-default does require that this be off. As I understand this case it is egress probing not a daemon listening of ingress requests. I defer to your expertise :-) My concern was one of 2nd-order exposure: I (the bad

PSARC/2007/499 Automatic discovery of network attached printers

2007-08-30 Thread Norm Jacobs
James Carlson wrote: Norm Jacobs writes: 1. It doesn't send out a response to any queries on the network. Just being open is enough. The fact that it's open is easily detectable, because the system won't send back an ICMP Destination Unreachable / Port Unreachable when a packet

PSARC/2007/499 Automatic discovery of network attached printers

2007-08-29 Thread Norm Jacobs
James Carlson wrote: Artem Kachitchkine writes: In order to better support these devices, this case seeks to extend the current HAL offering by adding a network attached device discovery service addon module and a probe module to probe network attached printers for identifying data.

PSARC/2007/499 Automatic discovery of network attached printers

2007-08-29 Thread Norm Jacobs
Danek Duvall wrote: Network Device Discovery Actual network device discovery will be handled by the HAL addon module named hald-addon-network-discovery. This module will be tied into the HAL device tree at /org/freedesktop/hal/devices/network_attached by

PSARC/2007/499 Automatic discovery of network attached printers

2007-08-29 Thread Norm Jacobs
Danek Duvall wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 06:34:37PM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: But I think we could do better than to force users to pick printers by mac address or ip address. That's not what this is about -- I think that as long as a human-readable name is available, that

PSARC/2007/499 Automatic discovery of network attached printers

2007-08-29 Thread Norm Jacobs
John Plocher wrote: Danek Duvall wrote: in our environment, would all 5000 printers show up, or some subset of those? I assume that, like today, if the user has a ~/.printers file, its all: entry will be used. If this is done naively, it could completely hide any auto-discovered

PSARC/2007/499 Automatic discovery of network attached printers

2007-08-29 Thread Norm Jacobs
Danek Duvall wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 06:03:40PM -0500, Norm Jacobs wrote: The SWAN's 5000 printers that you are referring to are not physical printers, but queues advertised in the network name services. But presumably a large number of those printers so represented