[request-sponsor] three requests back on the 'awaiting sponsor' list

? -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carlsonj at workingcode.com

[request-sponsor] three requests back on the 'awaiting sponsor' list

Peter Tribble wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:29 PM, James Carlson carlsonj at workingcode.com wrote: Won't these things still be issues for third-party packages? Third-party? Doubtful that they would use package names as long as SUNWstaroffice-gnome-integration. Good point. Given

[request-sponsor] I'd like to participate in opensolaris development

projects, the source is accessible via Mercurial or SVN, and once you're part of the project team, you can change it yourself. There is no step 2. ;-} -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carlson at sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084

[request-sponsor] Requesting sponsor for CR #6807179 (ksh93 does unneccesary |libc::getpwnam()| lookups for ~(modifer)pattern patterns)

better. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carlson at sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

[request-sponsor] sponsor needed for the convmv utility integration

or intern that you know and ask privately for help with your fast-track. (I can probably do that if you want, but I think the best candidate in this particular case would be ienup.sung at sun.com -- a PSARC intern with lots of i18n experience.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

[request-sponsor] Dual boot OpenSolaris, Ubuntu and FreeBSD impossible

/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0 ... though if you ever have to do that, that might be worthy of a bug. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carlson at sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA

[request-sponsor] Shooting my mouth off

be the natural next step for such a conflict, but I'd hope that path would never be used, and that it should almost never be successful. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carlson at sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212

[request-sponsor] Shooting my mouth off

Pete Bentley writes: On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:07:09AM -0500, James Carlson wrote: Let's also take the whole sponsor question away, as that is a temporary issue that's being fixed. Sorry to sidetrack what is a very useful thread, but just how temporary a problem is that likely

[request-sponsor] Shooting my mouth off

guide them there when they mistakenly post changes here, that'd be good. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carlson at sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

[request-sponsor] Shooting my mouth off

(such as cr.opensolaris.org). -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carlson at sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

[request-sponsor] Fix for bug-6440628

expect your code reviewers or sponsor or random contributors on request-sponsor to make your code compile or fix the design. Please make it right _first_, and then seek a review. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carlson at sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive

[request-sponsor] Could someone please provide hints for bugids: 4432948 , 4829659 , 5075505

tape [Accepted state, priority 3, RFE] Of those, I'd imagine that the first two would be of importance to someone looking at CR 4496994, and probably pretty easy to reproduce. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carlson at sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive

[request-sponsor] Bug ID 6614951 and 6614275

for adoption. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carlson at sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

[request-sponsor] [6236983] request sponsor

ashwin writes: I Would like to work on this bug # 6236983 if i am allowed to ( An Engineer is assigned) .Requesting sponsor for the same. My SCA number is OS01444 The bug has an assigned engineer (RE) who is working on it, and has a fix in code review now. -- James Carlson, Solaris

[request-sponsor] [tools-compilers] Bug ID 6515400 and gccfss?

don't see any architecture here to be reviewed, so the only approval I'd think would be necessary would be the RTI (requiring design and code review, as needed). -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carlson at sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1

[request-sponsor] Adding status support to dd

much, since this isn't the right list, but: *BSD uses SIGINFO, which is generated via the tty code when the user presses ^T. Several tools implement a status handler that uses SIGINFO. CR 6310532, now celebrating its first birthday. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

[request-sponsor] Adding status support to dd

James Carlson writes: Frank Van Der Linden writes: Matty wrote: Howdy, Most Linux and BSD distributions ship with a version of dd that displays the status of a copy operation when a SIGUSR1 signal is received. Just a correction. I know this is late in the game, and I don't

[request-sponsor] request sponsor for 6518038: cron crontabshould support multiple timezones

) files that are in compliance with those standards will always work properly on a Solaris system. In other words, just as it is with adding (say) /opt/csw/bin to your $PATH, it's the user's choice whether he wants to walk outside the standards. He doesn't have to. -- James Carlson, Solaris

[security-discuss] sync as non privileged user (Was Re: [request-sponsor] 4967733 and 6400646)

allowing zones to operate more quickly (by removing this privilege) and allowing zone users to save their work during thunderstorms? I'm not sure I know how a customer should make such a decision. -- James Carlson, KISS Networkjames.d.carlson at sun.com Sun Microsystems / 1 Network

[request-sponsor] Re: sponsor request for CR6482159

Gavin Maltby writes: On 10/26/06 15:25, James Carlson wrote: (For what it's worth, we have no way to reject bugs.) Can I log an rfe for one :-) It leads to an amusing paradox ... -- James Carlson, KISS Networkjames.d.carlson at sun.com Sun Microsystems / 1 Network

[request-sponsor] telnet(1) cannot handle more than 15 fds

Jonathan Adams writes: Couldn't you just start main() with: closefrom(3); to close any extra file descriptors? Yes, that'd be much better. -- James Carlson, KISS Networkjames.d.carlson at sun.com Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781

[request-sponsor] telnet(1) cannot handle more than 15 fds

was missing. In that case, I suspect that closefrom() won't fix the problem, as the socket() call will return a descriptor that's above the limit and run into the problem again. -- James Carlson, KISS Networkjames.d.carlson at sun.com Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive