[illumos-Developer] ksh93-integration update3 prototype webrev...

[Garrett D'Amore]

I will look at these within a few days... stay tuned...

Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:

>Hi!
>
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>Olga uploaded a ksh93-integration update3 webrev to
>http://cr.opensolaris.org/~fleyta/on_posix_utility_update2_20100801_012/
>a few days ago... can anyone please take a quick look, please ?
>
>Notes:
>- The "tr" replacement is part of the code but { /usr/bin/tr,
>/usr/xpg4/bin/tr, /usr/xpg6/bin/tr } do not link to /usr/bin/alias
>(our busybox-like wrapper) yet
>- "od", "printf" and "tail" replacemnts are available via
>/usr/bin/alias but not linked either
>- "grep" still misses option "-r". This will be added in the next cycle.
>- Our 'tr" replacement behaves like /usr/xpg[46]/bin/tr (except option
>"-C" which still requires some work to get it a) working and b)
>working with the same performance as the Solaris "tr"). For now we
>don't try to emulate the old /usr/bin/tr because it had horrible
>multibyte handling issues (or better: It has no working multibyte
>support, the closest emulation would be to set LC_ALL='C' before using
>it) and hope noone really tries to dissect strings with multibyte
>characters at byte level with "tr".
>- The putback provides the basis for getting "sed" and "pax" replaced
>but this is not part of this putback (risk minimisation)
>
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>Bye,
>Roland
>
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