"readlink" ... / was: Re: ksh93 Integration Update 1 Amendments 1

[Bart Smaalders]

Roland Mainz wrote:
> 
> Right... let's drop the "readlink" topic, please...
> ... but a "registry" may be interesing... however my optinion is that
> the GNU stuff should only end-up in /usr/bin/ if it fully passes the
> POSIX test suite and is CSI-conformant.
> 

We don't require Posix conformance for our own software in
/usr/bin.   Posix is _one_ of the standards we follow, there are
others.

> 
> The issue is not about conflicting builtins - the issue is that GNU
> "readlink" has options which won't work on all types of filesystems (and
> are therefore not portable). 

But so does ln and mknod, so I don't understand your complaint.

- Bart




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