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... :-) ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)