[illumos-Developer] webrev: reimplementation of od

[Joerg Schilling]

"Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at nexenta.com> wrote:

> > After the recent (heated) discussion about printf I find this a
> > bit confusing, what is Illumos general strategy for changes to the
> > userland? Quirk-by-quirk compatibility in order to prevent
> > breakage of legacy scripts or modernization and convergence with
> > /usr/{xpg4,xpg6}/bin?
>
> Generally, I'd prefer to avoid breaking scripts.  Where I can achieve
> that *without* breaking POSIX compatibility, that's a goal.  In some
> cases we will have to decide individually. 

You still say "I prefer" and "where I can achive". If you think in terms of 
"we", we start to have a community project.

Jörg

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