James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote:
> As for the extended FILE bits, I think that if they don't want to port
> to Solaris, then that's entirely their right. The clear alternative
> would be for someone in OpenSolaris-land to fork the GNU coreutil
> source in order to provide the desired port. That's how the world
> deals with intransigent maintainers.
Do not expect that the GNU tools will be "ported to Solaris", they are not even
ported to linux....
GNU tar does not implement a single Linux specific feature, star does.
J?rg
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