I am sponsoring this case for myself and have marked it closed automatic
since it simply passes through a widely distributed utility from X.Org.
If anyone thinks more in-depth review is needed, let me know and I can
convert it to a fasttrack.
-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.70 03/30/10 SMI
This information is Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All
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1. Introduction
1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
lndir
1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
Author: Alan Coopersmith
1.3 Date of This Document:
16 June, 2010
4. Technical Description
This case delivers the lndir utility from X.Org as /usr/bin/lndir
To quote from its man page:
The lndir program makes a shadow copy todir of a directory
tree fromdir, except that the shadow is not populated with
real files but instead with symbolic links pointing at the
real files in the fromdir directory tree. This is usually
useful for maintaining source code for different machine
architectures. You create a shadow directory containing
links to the real source, which you will have usually
mounted from a remote machine. You can build in the shadow
tree, and the object files will be in the shadow directory,
while the source files in the shadow directory are just sym-
links to the real files.
lndir was originally created as a utility for building the X Window System
but was found to be useful for other things so is now commonly packaged and
included in OS distros, including from a quick survey: OEL, RHEL, Fedora,
Ubuntu, Debian, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonFly BSD.
Since this case adds a new command with no compatibility issues, it
qualifies for a patch release binding, though no backport is planned
at this time. Should it be backported to an SVR4-packaged release,
it will be included with the other X11 build utilities like imake in
the SUNWxwopt package.
Interfaces Exported:
--------------------
/usr/bin/lndir Uncommitted [1]
pkg:/file/lndir Uncommitted
References in case directory:
-----------------------------
[1] lndir.man - lndir(1) man page
6. Resources and Schedule
6.4. Steering Committee requested information
6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
X Consolidation / Desktop C-Team
6.5. ARC review type: Automatic
6.6. ARC Exposure: open
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