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

[Bart Smaalders]

Nicolas Williams wrote:

> If the upstream community won't take patches to make ls(1) and chmod(1)
> support ZFS/NFSv4 ACLs then we can always:
> 
>  - re-implement GNU options into /bin/ls and /bin/chmod
>     - for chmod this is probably easy since the options that GNU chmod
>       has that Solaris chmod doesn't are few and simple:


Everyone who is contributing to this email thread is encouraged to
make their opinions known via putbacks/pushes rather than email.

If the Solaris commands become a superset of the Gnu ones, then that
position becomes a fait accompli.

-= Bart


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