From: Don Cragun <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, November 9, 2006 1:37 pm > >Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:38:52 -0700 > >From: Joel Buckley <Joel.Buckley at sun.com> > > > ... ... ... > > > >I believe precedent is already set by "/usr/xpg6/bin/stty". > > > >My suggestion is to obsolete & EOF the xpg6 directory entirely: > > > >1. merge the remaining "/usr/xpg6/bin/*" utilities into > > "/usr/bin/*" equivalents nd replace "/usr/xpg6/bin/*" with > > softlink, consistent with "stty" below. > > > > /usr/xpg6/bin/stty=../../../usr/bin/stty l none SUNWxcu6 > > > >2. IF all entries can be merged and after remaining > > "/usr/xpg6/..." entries are all softlinks to "/usr/..." > > equivalents, the SUNWxcu6 packages could be simplified > > to the following and marked for > >End Of Feature (EOF) in the next appropriate Solaris release: > > > > /usr d none 0755 root sys SUNWxcu6 > > /usr/xpg6=../usr l none SUNWxcu6 > > Hi Joel, > To do what you suggest, we must first agree that Sun will stop > supporting multiple, conflicting revisions of various standards > (especially the System V ABIs, the POSIX standards, and the Single > UNIXSpecifications). That clearly IS NOT this case. Until we > agree that > Sun should stop supporting multiple standards (and I don't see me ever > agreeing to that), I don't believe we will ever be able to have only > /usr/bin as the only directory needed to contain conforming > utilities). Even if everything else could magically be aligned, we > will need more than one version of the getconf utility. (Try the > commands: > /usr/bin/getconf _XOPEN_VERSION > /usr/xpg4/bin/getconf _XOPEN_VERSION > /usr/xpg6/bin/getconf _XOPEN_VERSION > to see one trivial difference.) >
With that in mind, I then withdraw step 2 above... and only suggest doing step 1 where possible. Thanks for listening, Joel. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Joel.Buckley.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 331 bytes Desc: Card for Joel Buckley <Joel.Buckley at Sun.COM> URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-arc/attachments/20061109/d63b4dc0/attachment.vcf>
