[indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

[Alan Coopersmith]

Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:15:33AM +0100, Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>>> hello all,
>>> i'm surprised that gnu chmod is installed, what are the advantages 
>>> comparing to solaris chmod?
>>> It's very annoying when using ACLs.
>> No reason; several of the GNU utilities are broken in some way in Solaris;
>> change your $PATH and remove /usr/gnu/bin.
> 
> If a GNU utility is broken on Solaris then maybe we should not ship it,
> or else we should fix it.  No?

The known bad interactions with GNU utilities in the default path have been
tracked so far at:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/showdependencytree.cgi?id=576&hide_resolved=0

Just need some engineers (in Sun or the community) to sign up to fix them.

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