To clarify Glenn's email:
All utilities have been tested with VSC and all issues found have been
addressed.
This includes AST sed.
Olga
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Glenn Fowler <gsf at research.att.com> wrote:
>
> here are some (possibly off-list) message subjects from late 2009
>
> for -lcmd builtins
>
> VSC test results for { "comm", "join", "tail" }
> VSC test failures for "cmp" builtin
> VSC test suite failures when testing the "mkfifo" builtin
>
> for ast standalone cmds
>
> VSC test results for AST { "egrep", "fgrep" and "grep" }
> VSC test suite failures when testing AST "sed" from ast-open.2009-10-21
>
> I may have missed msgs with reports on other ast commands/builtins
> or I may have only gotten msgs on VSC test failures
>
> as far as I know the issues raised by the VSC test failures have been
> addressed,
> except for my contention that one of the VSC tests is flawed
>
> maybe Roland can collate all of the ast/ksh/builtins VSC tests that were done
>
> --Glenn
>
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:21:58 -0800 Don Cragun wrote:
>> Garrett,
>> Alan asked if this version of sed passed VSC sed tests. Olga said
>> ksh93 passed VSC sh tests. I was just pointing out that Olga didn't
>> answer Alan's question. If I wasn't clear, I also thought I was
>> pointing out that the project team has always done the right thing
>> with respect to VSC.
>
>> Furthermore, I am saying that I think it is implicit in any of these
>> cases that replace "standard" utilities with ksh93 built-ins passing
>> the appropriate VSC tests is an assumed checklist item before putback
>> will be allowed (and, therefore, doesn't need to be explicitly stated
>> in the ARC case).
>
>> Alan,
>> In a later message, you asked: "And what about the POSIX conformance
>> testing?"
>
>> POSIX conformance is a subset of UNIX certification. The UNIX
>> certification VSC sed tests are all that is needed for POSIX
>> certification as long as Oracle actually maintains the UNIX branding
>> that has been in place for more than 20 years. Note, however, that
>> since Sun laid off the UNIX standards conformance group there has been
>> no formal statement from Sun or Oracle that there is any intent to
>> renew the brand as part of the next Solaris major or minor release.
>> (Patch releases of Solaris 10 are covered under the current branding
>> documents.)
>
>> Cheers,
>> Don
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