Issues with pfksh93 and builtin commands... / was: Re:[ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: About pfksh93 and builtins... /was: Re:[osol-arc] Korn Shell 93 Integration [PSARC-EXT/2006/550Timeout:09/27/2006]

[James Carlson]

Darren J Moffat writes:
> > Ahhggrll... ;-(
> > I really like to avoid a "TCR" here and work in peace on a solution.
> > This seems to be more complex and rushing any solution without propper
> > investigation may lead to something which may even be worse than the
> > current status (which is at least predictable and controlable for the
> > developers of scripts).
> > Another issue is that I don't know much about RBAC (and AFAIK neither
> > David&Glenn do)... I first have to learn how it works in detail and
> > which side-effects it has...
> 
> Given this I HIGHLY recommend that this case does NOT introduce pfksh93. 
>   It will be a requirement on the future case that makes the ksh93 code 
> base /usr/bin/ksh to have this issue resolved - how that should be done 
> can be taken offline and may not, depending on other OpenSolaris 
> projects, require any change to ksh93 code at all.

Indeed.  That's exactly what I'd suggest the TCR say -- the project
does not deliver pfksh93, as the exact semantics for pfksh93 aren't
yet known.

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