ksh93 compatibility in Solaris / was: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Formal Proposal :Port OpenSolaris to PowerPC

[Glenn Fowler]

were these solaris-opensource projects or build-anywhere-opensource projects?

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:42:53 +0200 Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:

> > The only points of where we found scripts to fail are:
> > - Two scripts (from opensource projects) were found which simply failed
> > because they were using the the ksh93 builtin commands instead those
> > from /usr/bin/. This is a Solaris-specific issue as those scripts fail
> > because they depend on Solaris-specific features of the commands in
> > /usr/bin/ while the ksh93 builtin commands are a POSIX implementation.
> > This is clearly a portabilty issue in the script, however we fixed the
> > problem in the meantime in ksh93.

> Please try to be a bit more precise with this kind of descriptions.
> The Solaris tools are also verified POSIX applications. If another program
> does not implement the extensions from the Solaris tools, this is not a
> problem of the Solaris tools.