[illumos-Developer] Need short help with testing { sed, tr, pax } replacement binaries on i386 ...

[Joerg Schilling]

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

> >> I've uploaded a first _test_ version of the { /usr/bin/sed,
> >> /usr/xpg4/bin/sed, /usr/bin/tr and /usr/bin pax } replacement binaries
> >> for i386 to http://www.nrubsig.org/people/gisburn/work/solaris/illumos/posixcore20100701_i386_001.tar.bz2
> >
> > I recently posted a list of bugs for astpax. As this tar archive seems to refer
> > to a time before the bug report, it is most unlikely that the reported bugs
> > have been fixed. Missing POSIX compliance is a big problem.
>
> Erm... it would be nice to see the list of POSIX/SUS violations. The
> code has been tested by Sun and then AT&T a month ago and they did not
> find any POSIX violations except three bugs in the VSC test suite (Don
> Cragun has IMO the final comment on these three issues) ...

I am really confused about yout claim, that astpax is expected to pass all 
tests. I just discovered a hard POSIX standard violation:

astpax writes tar headers with typeflag '8' but this is value that is reserved 
for future standardization and for this reason _must_ nut be used by any 
current program.

Jörg

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