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

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