Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!mephisto!udel!mmdf From: archer%segin4.segin.fr@prime.com (Vincent Archer) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Posix P1003.2 & MINIX Message-ID: <23177@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 29 Jun 90 12:08:02 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 44 Andy Tanenbaum says: > This message concerns P1003.2. It defines the syntax and semantics of > a large number of commands that a conformant system must have. I will > be busy with the OS proper (kernel, FS, and MM) and won't have time to > do this, but I thought that with 16,000 people in this group, if we could > find, say, 10-20 volunteers, it should be possible to make quite a bit > of progress on making conformant utilities. Here's one!!! > If you "sign up" for say half a dozen utilities, I'll send you a photocopy > of the relevant pages of draft 9 (at least the specific pages for the > utilities). Please don't sign up if you are not serious or don't really > have the time. I have some spare time for, let's say, three-four months. Pick the utilities, I'll take my whip and make them behave :-) (not too many, or it might take too long) > All this notwithstanding, the utilities are currently moderately small and > reasonably debugged. PLEASE don't make any more changes than the standard > requires you to make. Btw, I'll post (next week, first thing) a new backup(1) command. I'll split the patch in three parts: 1> Posixify code (use readdir(), include ) 2> Implement a -k option (keep user & group ids, if you're root) 3> Implement such nice thing as "backup . /dev/dd0" (without using a shell) Patch 1 is necessary. Patch 2 & 3 are reasonably independant, you can apply one and not the other if you want... > In addition to these, Chap. 6 specifies: > > ar [options] Do you mean that ar(1) will have the same options on PC and STs? :-) (I'm not asking about internal compatibility) Vincent Vincent Archer | Email:archer%segin4.segin.fr@prime.com "People that are good at finding excuses are never good at anything else"