"Garrett D'Amore" <Garrett.Damore at Sun.COM> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 13:07 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > "Garrett D'Amore" <Garrett.Damore at Sun.COM> wrote:
> >
> > > Mostly I've avoided this conversation, but I want to inject two cents
> > > here.
> > >
> > > First, I'm sorry that Joerg feels that his effort is intentionally being
> > > stepped on. I really don't think that is what is being done here.
> > > There are several different implementations, and they have evolved in
> > > incompatible ways....
> >
> > It seems that you did not yet understand the background.
> > Give me a phone call and I will explain you the problem.
>
> Am I incorrect in my understanding that you're upset because the
> introduction of -/ conflicts with what you had previously used -/ for in
> your implementation of suntar.c (in star)?
>
> I've seen enough mail from you that I think you're misunderstanding what
> Interface Stability means. Sun, Solaris, and OpenSolaris have *no*
> commitment to interface stability of unbundled programs. Star is
> currently unbundled/3rd party.
Interface stability also means planning for forseeable problems that could
occur in the future.
J?rg
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