[ogb-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at sun.com
Wed Dec 19 09:21:23 PST 2007


On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 05:56:49PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Or you could rename your compare to something else that conflicts
> > neither with the existing cmp(1) nor the new compare(1) (yes, it came in
> > before yours and now you're not happy; c'est la vie).   ecmp, fcmp, ...
> > four letters long is better than seven -- less typing.
> 
> If someone starts to use a name that has been in use since 20 years before, this
> entity needs to change the name to something that does not conflict.

It happened.  Oh well.  Now you might want to finish the task of
integrating star before someone appropriates that command name for
something else...  :/

And yes, a registry that all Linux/*BSDs/OpenSolaris distros/c-teams
could use would be cool.

Nico
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