Garrett D'Amore wrote: > The tricky part is dealing with the subtle semantic differences. For > example, what does date +%C output? For /usr/bin, its the default > strftime output. For standard conforming date it is the century > number. (Which means you should never use %C in a date format string in > a portable shell script! :-) Its these kinds of legacy Sun semantics > that I think we can finally bite the bullet and eliminate, offering the > POSIX conformant semantics instead.
Or at least restrict the ancient Sun semantics to the versions called from /usr/has/bin, or /usr/sunos/bin, or whatever it ends up being called. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code