James Carlson wrote:
[snip]
> So, clearly, the project team appears to believe:
> 
>   - that libcmd.so needs to be in /lib or /usr/lib

Correct.

>   - that there will be applications outside of ksh that will link to
>     this library in order to avoid fork+exec or spawn overhead

Correct.

>   - that some of those applications will be portable across machines
>     other than Solaris, and thus it'd be bad for us to rename the
>     library

Correct.

> None of that sounds like Private to me, though I'd still very much
> like to see this library *be* Private.

I would agree with you for the |def*()|-parts of libcmd. They're on my
list of "things which should die a horrible death" right now...

> (This would be a good time for one of them to chime in, especially if
> I've got that wrong.)

See above... :-)

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Roland

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