On 4/6/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 06/04/07, I. Szczesniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/3/07, Steven Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> We can barely live with it. Solaris is a very delicate platform when
> you try to rely on standards in your products. Many details which are
> standard on other operating systems are optional (especially POSIX and
> multibyte locale support) which makes it difficult to maintain a
> Solaris port.
What other platforms are you speaking of? Linux isn't POSIX compliant,
and most of the BSDs aren't. So which ones?
Linux isn't POSIX compliant but the tools in /usr/bin are closer to
the POSIX standard (compared to the tools in Solaris 10). Linux has
the substantial advantage that all major tools (sed, awk, tr, sh)
handle multibyte characters which the Solaris tools do not and relying
on the tools in /usr/xpg4/bin is not always possible for our products.
Irek
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