Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> > I *think* all the functions in Solaris's libcmd are Consolidation Private
> > (or at least Private of some form).
>
> I don't remember if libcmd was officially or just effectively Sun Private, but
> since it's used by unbundled products such as JES, renaming it would cause
> coordination problems and break compatibility for older versions of our own
> products.
AFAIR, libcmd was introduced by AT&T with SVr4 (mainly for /etc/default which
was missing on SunOS 4.x). In early days it was a static library living in the
cmd source tree and not installed in /usr/lib. When Sun switched to shared libs,
libcmd was put into public.
J?rg
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