Is this mean We should use Solaris original utilities under
/usr/bin
instead of posix ones under /usr/xpg/bin.
It's really surprising. Well, we can live with it.
Thanks,
I. Szczesniak wrote:
On 3/29/07, Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I. Szczesniak wrote:
> /usr/bin/tr is one of the big problems in Solaris - the behaviour is
> nonstandard and Sun declared long ago that fixes to support multibyte
> locales are off limits because they would break backwards
> compatibility.
So use the one in /usr/xpg4/bin.
The tools in /usr/xpg4/bin are optional. We did a survey in 2005 what
customers have installed on their systems. The SUNWxcu4 package is
missing on more than 38% of the tested installations. On machines with
eight or more CPUs even 61% miss the SUNWxcu4 package. Furthermore
installing the package later requires to redeploy the patch packages
for SUNWxcu4 which is rarely done.
Conclusion: The tools in /usr/xpg4/bin have some academic value but
they are virtually useless for commercial products.
Irek
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