Karen Tung wrote: > Hi Joe, > > Thanks for your responses. > I have 1 comment to your responses inline below. > I removed everything else that I have no further comment on. > > Joseph J VLcek wrote: >> Karen, >> >> Thank you for the feedback. My comments are below regarding the new >> VM finalizer scripts, as that's the piece I worked on. I'll let Glenn >> comment on the other files. >> >> Joe >> >> >> > >> > - In all the new finalizer scripts, the comment about setting the PATH >> > says this script Solaris needs the POSIX-conforming command. Why >> is that? >> > If something in the script really needs POSIX conforming command, >> > it would be good to know exactly what it is. >> >> I learned to do this by Roland Mainz (Mr. bash) when I was working on >> usbgen. It is in our ksh93 tips >> http://installzone-wiki.central.sun.com/wiki/index.php/Ksh93_Tips >> >> Setting PATH will ensure consistent the same commands are used >> regardless of the environment they are run in. This will ensure >> consistent behavior. >> > Looking the ksh93 tips link, it recommends setting the path to ensure > the correct utilities are used. > It does not recommend using POSIX conforming command or whatever. > Setting the path to > use POSIX command is just an example there. The comment in all the > finalizer scripts: > "Solaris needs /usr/xpg4/bin/ because the tools in /usr/bin are not > POSIX-conforming", was > confusing to me because it does not say *why* these finalizer script > *must* use POSIX-conforming > commands. Perhaps you can explain why POSIX conforming commands must > be used > in the comments so it is obvious to people. > > Thanks, > > --Karen Thank you Karen!
I will do that. Joe
