> Seriouly... did you really belive I'd try my luck with something like
 > MVS ?

One never knows ;-)

 > > Just that "some kind of iffe-like probe" seems nebulous.  How confident
 > > are we that we understand its purpose and relationship to Solaris?
 > 
 > See Glenn's answer
 > (http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/2007-March/002429.html)
 > for that...

He's described what it does, but said "I'm not sure how/where the catalog
generation is being integrated" -- in other words, I still don't quite
understand when we would make use of it.

 > > For hygiene reasons, we don't permit exceptions that are not actually
 > > being used.  There is another tool (checkpaths) that will enforce this.
 > > (Yes, we're really *that* picky about this sort of stuff.)
 > 
 > Ok...
 > ... but are there any objections that someone stuffs a DocBook/XML file
 > (documentation) in the tree (later... not now...) ?

Seems OK to me, but that's something that probably needs discussion with a
wider audience.

 > Well, my idea was to create a file (e.g.
 > "usr/src/lib/libshell/misc/filelist.txt") which should contain the list
 > of added/moved/removed files that we can keep track of all the movements
 > of our citizen. For now the file would only contain the following list
 > of removed files (plus CDDL header+description... and maybe a "removed"
 > in front of each filename):

That seems OK to me.

 > usr/src/cmd/ast/msgcc/Mamfile
 > usr/src/lib/libast/common/Mamfile
 > usr/src/lib/libast/common/Makefile
 > usr/src/lib/libast/common/astsa/align.h
 > usr/src/lib/libast/common/astsa/astwinsize.c
 > usr/src/lib/libast/common/astsa/ccode.h
 > usr/src/lib/libast/common/astsa/strmatch.c
 > usr/src/lib/libast/common/astsa/times.h
 > usr/src/lib/libast/common/astsa/sig.h
 > usr/src/lib/libast/common/astsa/lclib.h
 > usr/src/lib/libast/common/astsa/README
 > usr/src/lib/libast/common/astsa/ast.h
 > usr/src/lib/libast/common/uwin/mini.sym
 > usr/src/lib/libast/common/misc/magic.tab
 > usr/src/lib/libcmd/common/Mamfile
 > usr/src/lib/libcmd/common/Makefile
 > usr/src/lib/libdll/common/Mamfile
 > usr/src/lib/libdll/common/Makefile
 > usr/src/lib/libpp/common/Mamfile
 > usr/src/lib/libpp/common/Makefile
 > usr/src/lib/libpp/common/probe.win32
 > usr/src/lib/libshell/common/Mamfile
 > usr/src/lib/libshell/common/Makefile
 > usr/src/lib/libshell/common/mamexec
 > usr/src/lib/libshell/common/mamstate.c
 > -- snip --
 > (please verify that I didn't miss any files)

I thought we concluded that dirstd.h and atmain.C were also safe to
remove?

 > >  > >    ./lib/libpp/sparc/probe
 > >  > >    ./lib/libpp/sparc/probe.sh
 > 
 > Uhm... good question. Glenn explained in
 > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/2007-March/002429.html
 > for which stuff these files are used... but the OS/Net Makefiles do not
 > use them (which raises the question why these files didn't show up in
 > the original "unused i386 files"-list).

Indeed, why is that?

-- 
meem

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