Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-25 Thread David . Comay
[ Removed opensolaris-discuss from the Cc and Bcc'ed advocacy-discuss and opensolaris-discuss. Folks, can we try to exercise some basic email etiquette here? ] Sigh. We have made no statements about compatibility with anything, either past or future, in the preview releases. It's an

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-13 Thread Brian Nitz
Joerg Schilling wrote: Glynn Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: o ksh93 is the default *system* shell (bash remains the default user shell) What do you understand by *system* shell? Jörg It's the shell /usr/sh points to. This satisfies backward compatibility so you're

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-13 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, Joerg Schilling wrote: Brian Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Glynn Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: o ksh93 is the default *system* shell (bash remains the default user shell) What do you understand by *system* shell? My fault for not figuring

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Brian Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Glynn Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: o ksh93 is the default *system* shell (bash remains the default user shell) What do you understand by *system* shell? Jörg It's the shell /usr/sh points

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: BTW: I vote against allowing to replace /sbin/sh by something different than a 100% compatible Bourne shell for distributions that like to use the OpenSolaris trademark. Discussions of what properties distros must have to use the OpenSolaris trademark are being

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-13 Thread Jonathan Edwards
On Feb 13, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Rich Teer wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Shawn Walker wrote: /usr/has/bin/sh ...since it is a hasbin :) Groan! korny ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-13 Thread Brian Cameron
Brian Joerg is referring to the fact that ksh93 and bourne shell have some minor incompatibilities. It is possible to write a script that will work differently in the two shells. Academics have even written some scripts to demonstrate these incompatibilities really exist. The three users in

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-13 Thread David . Comay
[ Bcc'ing advocacy-discuss and opensolaris-discuss to reduce cross-posting ] Peter, It would help a lot if the aims of this project were clearly explained and enunciated, because I for one haven't a clue what they are, and the more I think about it and look at what has been announced and

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-13 Thread Shawn Walker
On Feb 13, 2008 3:12 PM, Brian Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Joerg is referring to the fact that ksh93 and bourne shell have some minor incompatibilities. It is possible to write a script that will work differently in the two shells. Academics have even written some scripts to