Re: [coreutils] Coreutils Solaris extensions

[John Sonnenschein]

On 09/10/10 09:57 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> John Sonnenschein wrote:
>    
> > 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.
> >      
> Hard to say without knowing more... like how large
> the changes are, how invasive, how mature.
> We make an effort to avoid in-function #ifdefs,
> and prefer cpp feature tests, rather than platform-testing ifdefs.
> I hope there will be few "#ifdef sun" directives.
>
> It might be good to start by outlining one or two small, local
> changes and let's go from there.
>    

Okay, great. Thanks for the replies.

It may take a little while to get started but once we have something in 
place we'll keep in touch

-JohnS