[advocacy-discuss] "What is OpenSolaris" page

Calum Benson Calum.Benson at Sun.COM
Thu May 8 10:20:55 PDT 2008


On 8 May 2008, at 16:00, John Plocher wrote:
>
> The likelihood of a newby falling into this type of "unique to
> OpenSolaris" problem seems remote at best, especially considering
> that THEY ALREADY ARE DOING THINGS THAT WAY ON THEIR MACS AND LINUX
> BOXES!

FWIW, MacOS actually uses the BSD rather than GNU version of commands  
like chmod, so ACLs etc. *are* supported.  (It does use GNU tar,  
though.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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