2007/048 Include GNU coreutils 6.4

[Stephen Hahn]

    I am sponsoring the following fast track for myself.  It seeks Minor
    release binding and is set to timeout on 31 January.  The appendix
    contains all of the command synopses for the various coreutils
    commands.

    (Typo warning:  this case has an appendix to follow; 2007/407 does
    not.)

    - Stephen

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PSARC/2007/048
Include GNU coreutils 6.4
Stephen Hahn (sch at sun.com)

ident	"$Hg: d-coreutils-fast-track.txt f86d9ec9092d 2007/01/22 11:52:13 -0800 $ SMI"

1.  Summary

    This case adds the GNU/FSF implementations of numerous standard
    commands, collectively known as "coreutils", under the integration
    guidelines for /usr/gnu [1].

2.  Discussion

    GNU coreutils--the combination of GNU fileutils, GNU shellutils, and
    GUN textutils--provide implementations of many common Unix utilities
    as well as various enhancements and additional related utilities.
    Providing these commands in a supported fashion on OpenSolaris is
    expected to conserve developer time, in that GNU extensions in
    common use on other platforms will be available on OpenSolaris,
    albeit on an alternate path.

    The coreutils package includes manual pages for the included
    commands; these will be installed in /usr/gnu/share/man.

    Conflicting commands and the complete commands are separated out in
    the interface table below.

    A new package, SUNWgnu-coreutils, will be introduced to deliver the
    binaries.

    The initial version provided will be coreutils-6.4.

2.1.  Omission of GNU su(1M)

    Although upstream open source software can be integrated with
    waivers on various policies surrounding internationalization or
    accessibility, security policies cannot be waived.  Although the
    current implementation of GNU su is undoubtedly well-tested, it does
    not interact with PAM or BSM auditing and therefore would introduce
    a setuid-component in violation of system policy.  It is therefore
    omitted from the delivered components.

2.2.  Apparent provision of 'g'-prefixed GNU install(1)

    It turns out that GNU coreutils offers its variant of install(1M) as
    "ginstall"--in the standard installation of the coreutils
    components.  Since it is non-conflicting, ginstall will also be
    provided in /usr/bin but is not considered a precedent-setting
    example of a 'g'-prefixed variant.

3.  Interfaces

3.1.  Non-conflicting commands.

    /usr/bin/
	[
	base64
	dir
	dircolors
   	ginstall
	pinky
	printenv
	ptx
	readlink
	seq
	shred
	shuf
	stat
	tac
	users
	vdir
	whoami
		Location		Uncommitted
		Invocation		Uncommitted
		Human-readable output	Volatile

3.2.  All commands.

    /usr/gnu/bin/
	[
	base64
	basename
	cat
	chgrp
	chmod
	chown
	chroot
	cksum
	comm
	cp
	csplit
	cut
	date
	dd
	df
	dir
	dircolors
	dirname
	du
	echo
	env
	expand
	expr
	factor
	false
	fmt
	fold
	groups
	head
	hostid
	hostname
	id
	install
	join
	kill
	link
	ln
	logname
	ls
	md5sum
	mkdir
	mkfifo
	mknod
	mv
	nice
	nl
	nohup
	od
	paste
	pathchk
	pinky
	pr
	printenv
	printf
	ptx
	pwd
	readlink
	rm
	rmdir
	seq
	sha1sum
	sha224sum
	sha256sum
	sha384sum
	sha512sum
	shred
	shuf
	sleep
	sort
	split
	stat
	stty
	sum
	sync
	tac
	tail
	tee
	test
	touch
	tr
	true
	tsort
	tty
	uname
	unexpand
	uniq
	unlink
	uptime
	users
	vdir
	wc
	who
	whoami
	yes
		Location		Uncommitted
		Invocation		Uncommitted
		Human-readable output	Volatile

    /usr/share/info/coreutils.info
	Location			Uncommitted

    /usr/gnu/share/man/man1/
	base64.1
	basename.1
	cat.1
	chgrp.1
	chmod.1
	chown.1
	chroot.1
	cksum.1
	comm.1
	cp.1
	csplit.1
	cut.1
	date.1
	dd.1
	df.1
	dir.1
	dircolors.1
	dirname.1
	du.1
	echo.1
	env.1
	expand.1
	expr.1
	factor.1
	false.1
	fmt.1
	fold.1
	groups.1
	head.1
	hostid.1
	hostname.1
	id.1
	install.1
	join.1
	kill.1
	link.1
	ln.1
	logname.1
	ls.1
	md5sum.1
	mkdir.1
	mkfifo.1
	mknod.1
	mv.1
	nice.1
	nl.1
	nohup.1
	od.1
	paste.1
	pathchk.1
	pinky.1
	pr.1
	printenv.1
	printf.1
	ptx.1
	pwd.1
	readlink.1
	rm.1
	rmdir.1
	seq.1
	sha1sum.1
	sha224sum.1
	sha256sum.1
	sha384sum.1
	sha512sum.1
	shred.1
	shuf.1
	sleep.1
	sort.1
	split.1
	stat.1
	stty.1
	su.1
	sum.1
	sync.1
	tac.1
	tail.1
	tee.1
	test.1
	touch.1
	tr.1
	true.1
	tsort.1
	tty.1
	uname.1
	unexpand.1
	uniq.1
	unlink.1
	uptime.1
	users.1
	vdir.1
	wc.1
	who.1
	whoami.1
	yes.1
	Location			Uncommitted

4.  References

[1] S. Hahn, B. Smaalders, and R. Orth, PSARC/2007/047: /usr/gnu, 2007.

[2] S. Hahn, PSARC/2007/049:  Including GNU which, 2007.

-- 
Stephen Hahn, PhD  Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems
stephen.hahn at sun.com  http://blogs.sun.com/sch/