[ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: update on ksh93 issues

2006-08-21 Thread david.co...@sun.com
> These 35 built-ins will not be part of the namespace...there > will not be a /usr/ast/bin directory nor any files. > They will only be available in ksh93 as built-ins, which have > pathname binding to /usr/ast/bin. This means that if these > commands are called without a pathname prefix, the bui

[ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93/AMD64 crash caused by compiler bug ?

2006-08-21 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! A few days ago Mike Kupfer found a crash while trying to build the ksh93-integration prototype on an AMD64 machine. The "make install" target in usr/src/cmd/ksh/ runs the ksh93/AST test suite which crashed in one of the test runs. The crash sequence looks like this: -- snip -- $ cd usr

[ksh93-integration-discuss] Adding "-s" (="suppress") switch to ksh93/libcmd's "rmdir" buildin...

2006-08-21 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Attached is a patch ("ksh93_libcmd_rmdir_add_s_suppress_switch001.diff.txt") which adds a "-s" switch (to "suppress" error messages when "-p" is used) for compatibility with the native Solaris version of /usr/bin/rmdir ... Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz

[ksh93-integration-discuss] Adding "-C" switch to ksh93's "wc" builtin command

2006-08-21 Thread Roland Mainz
Hi! Attached is a small patch ("ksh93_libcmd_wc_add_C_for_multibyte001.diff.txt") which adds the "-C" switch to ksh93/libcmd's "wc" builtin command to be fully compatible with the Solaris /usr/bin/wc command. It would be nice if this gets included in the next alpha version of ksh93r+ ... -

[ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: ksh93/AMD64 crash caused by compiler bug ?

2006-08-21 Thread Chris Quenelle
Just some thoughts on the subject here: For the sake of discussion, I'll assume we are dealing with a compiler bug, but we won't really know for sure until we see the code-generation bug in front of us. Until then it might possibly be a bug in the code resulting in platform dependant code.