On 2/20/09, Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison at sun.com> wrote: > Gavin Maltby wrote: > > > > That won't eliminate issues such as the execname issue for pgrep, > > but we can confirm it's being about as honest and clean as > > a shell script can be. > > > > If we are replacing utilities like sleep(1) then we should be using the GNU > versions not the ksh93 versions,
Now the great Alan Burlison comes and declares the work largest Opensolaris team outside Sun as unnecessary. Sounds I've wasted the 2 years here and should directly go to Linux. At least they honor work by contributors. Thank you. > not least because the GNU versions increase > compatibility with Linux. What do people migrating from FreeBSD, HPUX or OSX in your GNUGNUGNUfartlaris world? How to you handle POSIX incompatibilities? Linux compatibility is not always a good thing if you alienate enterprise users. Jenny -- Jennifer Pioch, Uni Frankfurt
