Dave Miner wrote: > James Carlson wrote: >> Dave Miner writes: >>>> The other poster who mentioned patches on unbundled software was >>>> on-target, though. Since that *is* possible, and since those sorts of >>>> patches may not be going away soon, I think we have an obligation to >>>> get pdo.c out there. >>>> >>> I think we have a Solaris product requirement to provide a utility which >>> can apply those patches, and an OpenSolaris requirement to make the >>> source for that utility available. Doesn't have to be pdo, could be >>> something else. Which one we choose seems fairly bound up in the >>> compatibility story, which clearly isn't baked yet. >> If it isn't pdo.c, I'd wager that it'll take longer to release, as you >> have to develop it first. >> > > Might be. We might also just declare pdo the evolutionary dead-end that > it looks like to me, and go back to the pure ksh code as a working base. > That probably wouldn't take any more time to open-source, and I > suspect could advance more quickly. >
You're going to teach the ksh scripts about zones? - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
