I am sponsoring the following fast track for myself. It seeks Minor
release binding and is set to timeout on 31 January. The appendix
contains all of the command synopses for the various coreutils
commands.
(Typo warning: this case has an appendix to follow; 2007/407 does
not.)
- Stephen
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PSARC/2007/048
Include GNU coreutils 6.4
Stephen Hahn (sch at sun.com)
ident "$Hg: d-coreutils-fast-track.txt f86d9ec9092d 2007/01/22 11:52:13 -0800
$ SMI"
1. Summary
This case adds the GNU/FSF implementations of numerous standard
commands, collectively known as "coreutils", under the integration
guidelines for /usr/gnu [1].
2. Discussion
GNU coreutils--the combination of GNU fileutils, GNU shellutils, and
GUN textutils--provide implementations of many common Unix utilities
as well as various enhancements and additional related utilities.
Providing these commands in a supported fashion on OpenSolaris is
expected to conserve developer time, in that GNU extensions in
common use on other platforms will be available on OpenSolaris,
albeit on an alternate path.
The coreutils package includes manual pages for the included
commands; these will be installed in /usr/gnu/share/man.
Conflicting commands and the complete commands are separated out in
the interface table below.
A new package, SUNWgnu-coreutils, will be introduced to deliver the
binaries.
The initial version provided will be coreutils-6.4.
2.1. Omission of GNU su(1M)
Although upstream open source software can be integrated with
waivers on various policies surrounding internationalization or
accessibility, security policies cannot be waived. Although the
current implementation of GNU su is undoubtedly well-tested, it does
not interact with PAM or BSM auditing and therefore would introduce
a setuid-component in violation of system policy. It is therefore
omitted from the delivered components.
2.2. Apparent provision of 'g'-prefixed GNU install(1)
It turns out that GNU coreutils offers its variant of install(1M) as
"ginstall"--in the standard installation of the coreutils
components. Since it is non-conflicting, ginstall will also be
provided in /usr/bin but is not considered a precedent-setting
example of a 'g'-prefixed variant.
3. Interfaces
3.1. Non-conflicting commands.
/usr/bin/
[
base64
dir
dircolors
ginstall
pinky
printenv
ptx
readlink
seq
shred
shuf
stat
tac
users
vdir
whoami
Location Uncommitted
Invocation Uncommitted
Human-readable output Volatile
3.2. All commands.
/usr/gnu/bin/
[
base64
basename
cat
chgrp
chmod
chown
chroot
cksum
comm
cp
csplit
cut
date
dd
df
dir
dircolors
dirname
du
echo
env
expand
expr
factor
false
fmt
fold
groups
head
hostid
hostname
id
install
join
kill
link
ln
logname
ls
md5sum
mkdir
mkfifo
mknod
mv
nice
nl
nohup
od
paste
pathchk
pinky
pr
printenv
printf
ptx
pwd
readlink
rm
rmdir
seq
sha1sum
sha224sum
sha256sum
sha384sum
sha512sum
shred
shuf
sleep
sort
split
stat
stty
sum
sync
tac
tail
tee
test
touch
tr
true
tsort
tty
uname
unexpand
uniq
unlink
uptime
users
vdir
wc
who
whoami
yes
Location Uncommitted
Invocation Uncommitted
Human-readable output Volatile
/usr/share/info/coreutils.info
Location Uncommitted
/usr/gnu/share/man/man1/
base64.1
basename.1
cat.1
chgrp.1
chmod.1
chown.1
chroot.1
cksum.1
comm.1
cp.1
csplit.1
cut.1
date.1
dd.1
df.1
dir.1
dircolors.1
dirname.1
du.1
echo.1
env.1
expand.1
expr.1
factor.1
false.1
fmt.1
fold.1
groups.1
head.1
hostid.1
hostname.1
id.1
install.1
join.1
kill.1
link.1
ln.1
logname.1
ls.1
md5sum.1
mkdir.1
mkfifo.1
mknod.1
mv.1
nice.1
nl.1
nohup.1
od.1
paste.1
pathchk.1
pinky.1
pr.1
printenv.1
printf.1
ptx.1
pwd.1
readlink.1
rm.1
rmdir.1
seq.1
sha1sum.1
sha224sum.1
sha256sum.1
sha384sum.1
sha512sum.1
shred.1
shuf.1
sleep.1
sort.1
split.1
stat.1
stty.1
su.1
sum.1
sync.1
tac.1
tail.1
tee.1
test.1
touch.1
tr.1
true.1
tsort.1
tty.1
uname.1
unexpand.1
uniq.1
unlink.1
uptime.1
users.1
vdir.1
wc.1
who.1
whoami.1
yes.1
Location Uncommitted
4. References
[1] S. Hahn, B. Smaalders, and R. Orth, PSARC/2007/047: /usr/gnu, 2007.
[2] S. Hahn, PSARC/2007/049: Including GNU which, 2007.
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Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems
stephen.hahn at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
