"Richard L. Hamilton" <rlha...@smart.net> wrote:
> So many app developers (those more interested in a single platform than
> in making there app as widely used as possible, and those less acquainted
> with the practical benefits of standards, or grown cynical because of seeing
> the standards or their implementations so far behind) gravitate to the place
> that has the largest toolset.
>
> And from their standpoint, it's not Solaris, or even OpenSolaris, that has
> that
> anymore.
It still is one of the best choices, but the Solaris development from the past
two years is no longer what it has been in former times. If we are not able to
revert this tendency, Solaris will be dead soon. I am not sure who inside Sun
is responsible for the change, but it is somehow correlated with the move
towards Indiana only.
> At _least_ vigorously tracking released standards is IMO crucial,
> because without it, the argument that standards provide a basis
> for discipline and portability falls apart.
>
> I would very much like to see someone compare the OpenSolaris section 3*
> man pages to The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7 /
> IEEE Std 1003.1???-2008
> see what's what's missing, and get busy adding it.
It is sad to see that Sun did invent openat() in August 2001 but that Sun did
not listen anymore to the discussions in the POSIX standard mailing list. We
still do not have the O_SEARCH and O_DIRECTORY flags that are needed in order
to be able to completely use openat() for longer path names.
Other details of deviation from recent POSIX standards may be called "of minor
importance", but O_SEARCH and O_DIRECTORY verify that something noticable did
happen with the intentions behind the Solaris development.
At the same time, I noticed that several long term Sun employees have been
fired.
Jörg
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