On Wed 05 Aug 2009 at 02:27PM, Darren J Moffat wrote:
> Martin Bochnig wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Alexander Eremin<[email protected]> wrote:
> >>Also we can divided these scripts for x86/64 and sparc versions - now
> >>all stuff on one
> >
> >
> >Doing this for entire ramdisk images (IA32 vs. AMD64 and sun4u vs.
> >sun4v) is certainly a good idea, as we discussed before.
> >But for scripts it would be against the design of Solaris / SVR4 /
> >POSIX / everything good.
>
> I don't agree. The scripts that Roland is talking about are ones
> delivered as part of the operating system. The fact that they are a
> script is an implementation detail that the end user or admin is not
> supposed to know about or care about and more importantly they aren't
> supposed to take advantage of it either.
>
> "No user serviceable parts inside"
Sure, but the parts need to be *vendor* serviceable. Please, it's
hard enought to debug things as it stands now. Let's not make it that
much harder. -1 from me.
> Providing that shcomp can guarantee 100% compatibility of execution I
> see no reason not to use it for core system things like /lib/svc/method
> if it can save us space and improve execution time.
This seems like premature optimization.
-dp
--
Daniel Price, Solaris Kernel Engineering http://blogs.sun.com/dp
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