Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Don Cragun <don.cragun at sun.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:43:53 +0100
>>> From: Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
>>>
>>> Don Cragun <don.cragun at sun.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The project team has made minor updates to the proposal to address
>>>> concerns raised by Darren, Garrett, and internal project team members.
>>>> (GNU rmt will move from /usr/sfw/libexec/grmt to /usr/lib/grmt instead
>>>> of /usr/libexec/rmt, man page links will be placed in
>>> As I mentioned already, grmt is not needed as the rmt program from star
>>> is replacing /etc/rmt ans this rmt implementation is a true superset of the
>>> functionality of all known rmt implementation.
>> And, has already been pointed out, star has been in the process of
>> replacing stuff for well over three years.  When you integrate star
>> into a Solaris gate, then we can consider dropping support for grmt;
>> until then, your proposed replacement for /etc/rmt is not an actual
>> replacement for grmt.
> 
> Is there a chance that you come to reality?
> 
> The case PSARC/2004/480 has not been made for fun but because there is a 
> _need_
> to integrate star into Solaris.
> 
> The people who are currently working on the GNU tar could e.g. do the more 
> important tasks first and make PSARC/2004/480 reality.
> 
> J?rg
> 

J?rg -

Could you do this yourself?  If you're too busy, imagine that others are
too.  Whatever you do, please stop going on about star.

- Bart




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Bart Smaalders                  Solaris Kernel Performance
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