[OSUNIX-dev] Fully open libc and misc other news

[Roland Mainz]

2010/7/18 Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>:
> C. Bergström wrote:
>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~gdamore/openi18n/
>
> >From the http://cr.opensolaris.org/~gdamore/openi18n/TODO.html list
> of things that need open source replacements:
>
>                more
>
> I'd be tempted to just "ln -s less more", but then I setenv PAGER less myself.
>
>                sed
>                tail
>                printf
>
> I believe the ksh93 project has replacements available for these.   Have you
> contacted them?

We have more utilities covered:
"od"
"pax"
"tail"
"tr"
All implementing the current SUSv4 specification (except "tr -C" which
is currently being tested) and passing the VSC testsuite by _default_,
e.g. a newer standard than the one on Solaris 11 right now (e.g. this
partially would go into /usr/xpg8/bin), no GNU-like POSIXLY_CORRECT
required and we outrun the GNU stuff on a one-by-one performace
comparisation by a wide margin.

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Bye,
Roland

P.S.: We're likely getting our 2nd baby this week, we may be suddently
offline for a few days this week...

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