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

[I. Szczesniak]

It would be better to go with the ATT AST tools
(http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/). AST supports many of the
BSD and GNU command line options missing in the native Solaris
userland and conform to POSIX.

Irek

On 1/14/09, Ignacio Marambio Catán <darkjoker at gmail.com> wrote:
> How exactly? by modifying the gnu tools? including some gnu and some
>  solaris tools where the later do not challenge the familiarity? or
>  modifying solaris' tools?
>
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>  On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:51 PM,  <David.Comay at sun.com> wrote:
>  >> i'm surprised that gnu chmod is installed, what are the advantages
>  >> comparing to solaris chmod?
>  >> It's very annoying when using ACLs.
>  >
>  > The default environment at the moment is to prefer the GNU tools as
>  > that is the more familiar environment for most developers and
>  > end-users; over time, the plan is to provide a unified set of tools,
>  > where possible, that is both familiar and fully supports OpenSolaris
>  > specific features.
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