Miles Nordin wrote: > > You wish to talk to Roland Mainz, Glenn Fowler and > > Jennifer Pioch > > then. They have opensource replacements for > > /usr/bin/sed, > > /usr/xpg4/bin/sed, /usr/bin/tail, /usr/xpg4/bin/tail, > > /usr/bin/tr and > > /usr/xpg4/bin/tr. > > is this a joke?
No, this is no joke. I am in the process of updating my bulid machines and then I make a Subversion tree which includes code for getting an opensource replacement for "tail" (both /usr/bin/tail and /usr/xpg4/bin/tail) and later "sed" (both /usr/bin/tail and /usr/xpg4/bin/tail), (/usr/bin/|/usr/xpg4/bin/|/usr/xpg6/bin/)tr and /usr/bin/pax. Basically we're now quickly getting rid of all closed-source POSIX commands (as part of the upcoming "POSIX commands community"). > Wherever could they find such precious and novel work? > maybe, from the GNU project, fifteen years ago? No, the work is based on the AT&T AST codebase - the same stuff where ksh93 comes from. > oh, o sorry my mistake they want *XPG4* versions. seriously, WHO CARES? We > are talking about this source: > > http://opensolaris.org/os/about/no_source/ Right... as said I try to push the matching source code as fast as possible... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.ma...@nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
