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

[Joerg Schilling]

Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at Sun.COM> wrote:

> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> ...
> > I would prefer if the user account installation could ask during OS install
> > whether the user like to have a UNIX or a Linux profile and inform people that
> > the GNU profile (as known fro Linux) could not support all features of the 
> > UNIX programs. Note that Solaris _has_ an own userland while Linux uses the
> > GNU userland that does not even implement Linux specific features.
> > 
>
> We're not going to do that in the installer, as it's a question too 
> subtle for explanation there, and it isn't something that is absolutely 
> necessary to get the system up and running.  For OpenSolaris, we've 
> chosen the default which makes the most sense for the most users, just 
> as with every other default.  The solution here is to fix the utilities.

If you don't like to add this kind of configuration and have the choice between
a userland that supports basic OS features and another one that does not 
support these features, you then yould need to default to the userland that
supports the basic OS features.

Jörg

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