David Powell wrote: > Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: [snip] > Since the goal of this project is to > deliver a useful firewall mechanism, not promote ksh93 usage, it is > more important to provide something that can be more widely adopted.
My primary concern was performance and startup time and _not_ to promote ksh93. The current script is simply slow ([1]) and I was suggesting a few changes along the POSIX shell standard (which is _widely_ adopted since it is the basis almost all modern shells with Bourne compatibilty (which includes bash2/3/4, ksh88, ksh93, mksh, pdksh, dash and others)) and one ksh93 extension (the compound variables to fold the use of multiple "svcprop" calls into one call which would greatly boost performance since this is one of the most time-consuming operations). [1]=BTW: It would be nice if someone would measure the time consumed at startup time on a modern system. On an Ultra5 it seems to be beyond six seconds which would AFAIK be a _major_ regression. ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;)
