[osol-code] Re: [Fwd: [ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93-integration pre-reviewround"two" (webrev 2007-05-14)]

[Joerg Schilling]

"Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at damore.org> wrote:

> If the extensions have escaped, then it is probably too late to do 
> anything about it, and we just need to figure out a way to improve 
> cooperation in the future.
>
> If they have _not_ escaped into Solaris 10, then can I suggest that 
> Joerg, who's obviously an expert in these details, and who seems to care 
> passionately about it, figure out how to reimplement the features to be 
> more compliant with POSIX 2001.1?  He can send diffs to the tar folks, 
> and I _suspect_ that as long as code is delivered without animosity, 
> that they will be happy to integrate the changes.

Well, in order to be able to suggest a different implementation, we would need 
a documentation of the implementation in question. Such a documentation is not
available.

> In any case, fighting is not going to solve the problem.... we need to 
> look constructively.

This is why I did propose to have a collaborate discussion.

Jörg

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