[ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93 builtins in Solaris -thepatch...

[April Chin]

> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:37:06 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Glenn Fowler <gsf at research.att.com>
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> To: April.Chin at eng.sun.com, ksh93-integration-discuss at opensolaris.org, 
roland.mainz at nrubsig.org
> Subject: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93 builtins in Solaris 
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> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:26:05 -0700 (PDT) April Chin wrote:
> > Yes, -m is supported, but in this case, the builtin behavior is different
> > from Solaris.
> > In the below, /usr/bin/mkdir is the Solaris version; plain mkdir is the
> > ksh93 builtin.  The below case is similar to a test case in the 
> > VSC standards test suite:
> 
> > $ umask 0777
> > $ /usr/bin/mkdir -m =rx d1
> > $ ls -ld d1
> > d---------   2 chin     staff        512 Jun 22  2006 d1
> > $ mkdir -m =rx d2
> > $ ls -ld d2
> > dr-xr-xr-x   2 chin     staff        512 Jun 22  2006 d2
> 
> mkdir and chmod have been fixed, along with regression tests,
> via a fix in the libast strperm(3) file mode expression parser
> 
> there will be an alpha post monday, along with a tab-tab update
> that should make everyone happy

Great...thanks, Glenn!
> 
> -- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ --
>