james <ja...@mansionfamily.plus.com> wrote:
> > Which minimum set of consensus? The point is to go boldly forward with
> > the userland modernization where Illumos has failed with it's
> > conservative policy.
>
> Isn't that a major sticking point? Many Solaris old-timers don't
> welcome such change.
Correct and for this reason, Illumos did change too much at some places already.
Solaris Old-timers like to have standard compatibility and backwards
compatibility.
It seems that the Illumos people e.g. insist in having their private broken
"od" instead of using this implementation:
http://hg.berlios.de/repos/schillix-on/file/af01495dc19c/usr/src/cmd/hdump
That is POSIX compliant and fully compatible (except for bugs) to the old Sun
closed source od.
The minmum consensus may be very tiny...
Jörg
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