ksh93 update 2 [PSARC/2009/063 FastTrack timeout 02/09/2009]

[Nicolas Williams]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 07:44:09AM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Peter Tribble wrote:
> >Replacement of important components of the userland seems rather too
> >important for a fast-track.

The bar isn't whether something is "too important" but whether the case
is "obvious," and this one seems to be.

> >I know that I'm certainly not happy about ripping out Solaris commands and
> >replacing them with external commands. What happens when we need or want
> >to diverge from upstream behaviour?

We participate in the upstream community.  If that fails we fork or
replace (the old sources don't simply disappear).

> >And is this just the tip of the iceberg?
> 
> That bridge has already been crossed, and the precedent set.  See for 
> example: /usr/bin/sum, /usr/bin/getopts, /usr/bin/kill, /usr/bin/sleep....

No precedent needed to be set.

Nico
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