Re: [coreutils] Coreutils Solaris extensions

[John Sonnenschein]

On 09/10/10 09:16 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/10/2010 10:03 AM, John Sonnenschein wrote:
> > > Before you get too far into it, please present your high-level
> > > goals on this list.
> > Well, the features the Solaris native versions of the coreutils have are
> > roughly as follows:
> >
> > * chgrp: Windows SIDs (for CIFS/SMB shared volumes.
> > SAMBA could possibly take advantage of this feature)
>
> More specifically, could you show actual command line uses for these 
> features?  That is, what flags or other syntax changes are you 
> proposing adding, that would expose these capabilities.

Perhaps not, nevermind I brought it up. Although SID -> gid mapping 
could still potentially remain an option for the SAMBA folks if they 
wanted to extend it further. We do it as a function of our own 
kernel-level CIFS server

> Anything that already has an existing option letter in the Solaris 
> implementation is a good argument for inclusion in coreutils under the 
> same option letter, provided it doesn't conflict with existing usage 
> in coreutils.

Okay, so no problems then with features that may be Solaris specific ( 
eg, Zones ) ? Assuming they'd be (#ifdef sun)'d out.

-JohnS