[osol-discuss] sort options

2011-03-18 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
I think sort(1) needs a couple of new (as of the last time I looked at an OpenSolaris man page) options: -C (upper case letter C): same as -c but explicitly silent. This should comply with the latest SUS/XPG, and reconcile the difference between /usr/bin/sort and /usr/xpg4/bin/sort. -h (as a

Re: [osol-discuss] zpool upgrade, zfs upgrade, risks?

2011-03-18 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Heinrich Rebehn • Is  there any risk in upgrading zpool and zfs? It's mostly pretty safe, but there are a couple of gotchas, you're wise to ask. ;-) After the upgrade, you

Re: [osol-discuss] sort options

2011-03-18 Thread John Martin
On 03/18/11 08:18 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: I think sort(1) needs a couple of new (as of the last time I looked at an OpenSolaris man page) options: -C (upper case letter C): same as -c but explicitly silent. This should comply with the latest SUS/XPG, and reconcile the difference

Re: [osol-discuss] sort options

2011-03-18 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On 03/18/11 08:18 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: I think sort(1) needs a couple of new (as of the last time I looked at an OpenSolaris man page) options: -C (upper case letter C): same as -c but explicitly silent. This should comply with the latest SUS/XPG, and reconcile the

Re: [osol-discuss] sort options

2011-03-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 03/18/11 08:24 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: In other words, if GNU sort has all the functionality and more, then why doesn't it get promoted to the one true version of sort? Because no one has had time to finish all the analysis and standards testing yet to determine that for all the GNU

Re: [osol-discuss] physmem option broken

2011-03-18 Thread Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network Sustaining - Oracle UK
The fact you get the limiting... message in the -B case implies the value was accepted and acted upon. I suspect that this cannot be set in /etc/system on x86. Walking through the x86 startup code shows that it may be read too late in the boot cycle to make a difference. In startup(), we

Re: [osol-discuss] sort options

2011-03-18 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On 03/18/11 08:24 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: In other words, if GNU sort has all the functionality and more, then why doesn't it get promoted to the one true version of sort? Because no one has had time to finish all the analysis and standards testing yet to determine that for all

Re: [osol-discuss] sort options

2011-03-18 Thread Octave Orgeron
There is also the AST tool set that merges the SYSV/POSIX and GNU functionality. I believe there is a IPS package in the opensolaris.org repo. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: