[trimmed cc list; it was getting ugly] Garrett D'Amore writes: > Have the extensions escaped in to the wild? (By that, I mean, have they > been released to Solaris 10 customers?
Yes, the new code went out with S10u3 -- the December 2006 release entitled 11/06. ;-} Actually, the extensions are *far* older than that. They're compatible with the extensions present in Trusted Solaris 8 and previous releases. My time machine is on the fritz right now, but otherwise I'd volunteer to go back and help change that release. > If they have _not_ escaped into Solaris 10, then can I suggest that > Joerg, who's obviously an expert in these details, and who seems to care > passionately about it, figure out how to reimplement the features to be > more compliant with POSIX 2001.1? He can send diffs to the tar folks, In the spirit of a review, no such code diffs or design figuring would really have needed to have been done. Instead, noting the difference between the two standards and asking the project team (during ARC or design review) to consider the newer standard would have been fair. I can't predict exactly how that alternate reality would have played out, but I strongly suspect the answer would have been, "thanks, but we have TS8 customers who need to upgrade to TX in S10, and tar compatibility is a key part of that story." > For the case of PSARC, if there is not a PSARC case for these > extensions, then can a PSARC representative kindly slap the project team > that integrated these features on the wrist? Changes that are customer No slap needed, as best I can tell. It's in PSARC 2005/723. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
