[ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: [ast-users] Solaris "/usr/bin/uname -a" vs. ksh93 builtin "uname -a" ...

[Roland Mainz]

Glenn Fowler wrote:
> 
> there was an opportunity, a long time ago, for uname to be a useful utility,
> and it was wasted
> 
> static probing will not work on systems that have more than one uname
> dynamic probing would lose any speed or cross-architecture portability gains
> 
> it might be best to move uname to the /opt/ast/bin builtin directory
> this can be done by compiling ksh with
>         -DSHOPT_CMDLIB_BLTIN -DSHOPT_CMDLIB_DIR

Actually this is not neccesary. I was simply wrong that there is no
standard (see James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com>'s comment about
that:
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ksh93-integration-discuss/2006-May/000300.html).
IMO we shoudn't touch the AST version of "uname" and ksh93's builtin -
it perfectly implements the POSIX standard and that's exactly what we
need. My patch is not needed (nor wanted from my side) - just ignore
it... :-)

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Bye,
Roland

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