[ksh93-integration-discuss] The sea of CR# numbers and hotfixes... / was: Re: SIGTTOU bug in b72 ksh93?

[Roland Mainz]

Glenn Fowler wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:33:21 -0400 James Carlson wrote:
> > William Pursell writes:
> > > On 9/26/07, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
> > > > AFAIK it was http://bugs.grommit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=206 and it went
> > > > away on our test machines after applying the hotfix for
> > > > http://bugs.grommit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=311 ... the question is now
> > > > where this xx@@@!!! is hiding now... ;-(
> > >
> > > Maybe that's CR 6598201. A previous fix in libc (6586967) broke the
> > > signal(3C) interface
> 
> > Unless you're a canary-in-the-coal-mine sort of application, like this
> > odd corner case in dhcpagent, I'd hope that you're not using the old
> > BSD-style signal(3C) interfaces in any modern software.  sigaction(2)
> > works _far_ better.
> 
> the sea of cr numbers and hotfixes has me at a loss

Sorry... that's a problem of using multiple bugtracking systems.
The "CR" or "CR #" thing with seven digits usually refers to Sun's bug
database which can be accessed via http://bugs.opensolaris.org for
non-Sun people (erm, the interface is sub-optimal and more or less
read-only, that's why we use bugs.grommit.com as our own project bug
database which we can use for read/write access), e.g. "CR #6586967"
translates into
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6586967
In parallel we use a bugzilla installation at http://bugs.grommit.com
for the ksh93-integration work.

BTW: The "hotfix" discussed earlier is the SIGCHLD handler patch. I
filed http://bugs.grommit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=311 ("Need hotfix for
memory corruption") for this to get David's patch backported&&integrated
into our tree.

> is ksh implicated on a standard bleeding edge system or not?

Depends on how you see it - Solaris 11 (sometimes called "Nevada") is
still under development which causes sometimes "hiccups" and lots of
changes are going on.

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Bye,
Roland

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