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

2009-02-11 Thread Don Cragun
Joerg Schilling wrote: > "Don Cragun" wrote: > > >>> Don Cragun was RIF'ed and right now I don't know anyone at Sun who can >>> be queried for standards issues. >>> >> Even though I am no longer at Sun, I'm still interested in OpenSolaris. I'm >> remaining involved in Austin Group activ

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

2009-02-11 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Don Cragun" wrote: > > Don Cragun was RIF'ed and right now I don't know anyone at Sun who can > > be queried for standards issues. > > Even though I am no longer at Sun, I'm still interested in OpenSolaris. I'm > remaining involved in Austin Group activities on my own dime. Sun was and still m

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

2009-02-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
Joerg Schilling wrote: > "Don Cragun" wrote: > >>> Don Cragun was RIF'ed and right now I don't know anyone at Sun who can >>> be queried for standards issues. >> Even though I am no longer at Sun, I'm still interested in OpenSolaris. I'm >> remaining involved in Austin Group activities on my own

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

2009-02-11 Thread Joerg Schilling
James Carlson wrote: > Don Cragun writes: > > During the last revision cycle, the committee received requests to > > explicitly > > add these functions because they are widely used in Linux application > > programming and were a portability problem for people porting code from > > Linux systems

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

2009-02-10 Thread James Carlson
Don Cragun writes: > During the last revision cycle, the committee received requests to explicitly > add these functions because they are widely used in Linux application > programming and were a portability problem for people porting code from > Linux systems to POSIX/UNIX platforms. I don't reme

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

2009-02-10 Thread Roland Mainz
"Mark J. Nelson" wrote: > > ...I've asked around > > whether it is possible to deliver the contents of one ARC case with > > multiple putbacks but the answers were a bit "fuzzy" > > Speaking not as an ARC member, but rather as a CRT Advocate and former > Tech Lead: > > Standard expectation is tha

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

2009-02-10 Thread Don Cragun
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:14:07 +0100 > From: Roland Mainz > > James Carlson wrote: >> Casper Dik writes: >> >char *stpcpy(char *restrict s1, const char *restrict s2); >> >char *stpncpy(char *restrict s1, const char *restrict s2, size_t n); >> >wchar_t *wcpcpy(wchar_t restrict *ws1

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

2009-02-09 Thread Roland Mainz
"Mark J. Nelson" wrote: > > ...I've asked around > > whether it is possible to deliver the contents of one ARC case with > > multiple putbacks but the answers were a bit "fuzzy" > > Speaking not as an ARC member, but rather as a CRT Advocate and former > Tech Lead: > > Standard expectation is tha

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

2009-02-09 Thread Roland Mainz
"I. Szczesniak" wrote: > On 2/4/09, Roland Mainz 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 case) cover the remaining closed-source commands defined by > > POSIX (e.g.

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

2009-02-09 Thread Mark J. Nelson
> ...I've asked around > whether it is possible to deliver the contents of one ARC case with > multiple putbacks but the answers were a bit "fuzzy" Speaking not as an ARC member, but rather as a CRT Advocate and former Tech Lead: Standard expectation is that a single ARC case will be integrated

[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 > >

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

2009-02-04 Thread casper....@sun.com
> > > >>> 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*

Why "print" is not bound to a PATH element... / was: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93 update 2 [PSARC/2009/063FastTrack timeout 02/09/2009]

2009-02-04 Thread James Carlson
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 output anything e

Fix for CR #6793120 ... / was: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93 update 2[PSARC/2009/063FastTrack timeout 02/09/2009]

2009-02-04 Thread Roland Mainz
Peter Memishian 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 ac

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

2009-02-04 Thread Roland Mainz
Peter Memishian 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 > > >>> wrappe

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

2009-02-04 Thread Roland Mainz
Dale Ghent wrote: > On Feb 4, 2009, at 12:32 AM, Peter Memishian 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 inst

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

2009-02-04 Thread Roland Mainz
Peter Memishian 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 access the builtin functi

Why "print" is not bound to a PATH element... / was: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93 update 2 [PSARC/2009/063FastTrack timeout 02/09/2009]

2009-02-04 Thread Roland Mainz
James Carlson wrote: > Alan Hargreaves writes: > > Unlike other built-in commands named in PSARC/2006/550, the "print" > > built-in in ksh93 will _not_ be bound to the /usr/bin/ pathname to > > ensure backwards-compatiblity to existing ksh93 scripts (for example > > scripts running in "restricted"

Fix for CR #6793120 ... / was: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93 update 2[PSARC/2009/063FastTrack timeout 02/09/2009]

2009-02-04 Thread Peter Memishian
> > So there is a unique pid for each program and thus it can still be pkill'd? > > 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 123

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

2009-02-04 Thread Peter Memishian
> >>> 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 acc

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

2009-02-04 Thread Dale Ghent
On Feb 4, 2009, at 12:32 AM, Peter Memishian 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 >>

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

2009-02-04 Thread Peter Memishian
> > 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 access the builtin functionality throu