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

[Nicolas Williams]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0500, Brian Utterback wrote:
> It is simple. Do we want the default environment to be a Solaris one 
> or a GNU one?  If you want both, you have to provide a knob to switch 
> them back and forth.

I agree, but that knob should be made to work via shell startup scripts,
with the knob itself having a global state (in /etc or SMF) and optional
per-user state (in dot files).

Nico
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