Fixing "touch" to reset ancient/weired/far-future timestamps... / was: Re: Switch SPARC GNU coreutils+bash from 32 to64bit[PSARC/2008/351SelfReview]

[Shawn Walker]

2008/6/11 John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com>:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> I also remain unfond of the approach of turning a bunch of key programs
>> in /usr/bin into isaexec() links.  While the isaexec() approach was not
>> unreasonable for a few utilities that aren't run frequently like
>> prtconf, I don't think the solution scales well.
>
>
> Maybe there is an opportunity to leverage IPS here - have it install the
> correct binaries from the repo (32, 64, x64, SPARC, Power, ARM...) based
> on the isaexec-abilities of the target platform.
>
> (i.e., don't do isaexec() at runtime, do it at install time :-)

I can already hear the complaints from people using nfs mounted binaries... :-)

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Shawn Walker