Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> > I don't see why /usr/gnu/bin/awk should get preference over /usr/bin/awk
> > just because its in gnucore.
>
> How about because it's already known to be 64-bit clean since the GNU
> utilities run on platforms that are 64-bit only, while the Solaris
> versions may or may not be ready to go?
It is well known that most Solaris utilities are not 64 bit clean (see e.g.
sccs tools and execl(2) calling bugs that I fixed a year ago and reported...).
A short check of some other commands finds:
modload, modunload, power*, zlogin [this is really bad!!!!], dc, bdiff,
init, cachefs*, volcopy, fsdb, edquota, newgrp, eject, yp*, lpadmin,
libssh*, crypt, ... let me stop here, there are just too many.
I am not sure whether the GNU tools are 64 bit clean. Note that the DEC Alpha
port of Linux used a ILP64 compile environment.
J?rg
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