Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Will these changes be made to both the chmod & chown utilities > in /usr/bin & /usr/gnu/bin ? > > (PSARC: do we need to add a best practice/policy that says that > new functionality added to /usr/bin tools needs to also be added > to /usr/gnu/bin equivalents if they exist to avoid causing > problems for users with /usr/gnu/bin first in their $PATH, > like the OpenSolaris 2008.05 default user setup?)
That seems to me like a bad idea, as they won't be gnu any more. If it's felt desirable to have the changes in the gnu toolchain, then the team should be persuaded to get them accepted upstream, and then update the gnu tools in /usr/gnu/bin when that's been done. -- Andrew
