On 6/3/06, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 08:35:07PM -0700, you wrote:
>detail, as of POSIX-1992. I know for a fact that this is the case for
>releases of Solaris up to and including (2.)8, and I strongly suspect
That's simply not true. Solaris has obsolete syntax in /usr/bin, and
more modern syntax in /usr/xpg4/bin.
Yes, I'm aware. However, a portable shell script cannot assume
/usr/xpg4/bin is in PATH, nor can it add it, nor can it go and invoke
/usr/xpg4/bin/foo explicitly (the user may have gone to some trouble
to install shell utilities that they want used, and set PATH
accordingly); so in practice, what I said remains true.
[And, for the record, official end-of-life dates have approximately
zero effect on whether or not GCC drops support for a system, and are
therefore not useful evidence for this argument.]
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