Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!brl-adm!adm!rbj@icst-cmr.arpa From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: lpd problem (Sun 3.2 / imagen) Message-ID: <6078@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Fri, 27-Mar-87 22:34:11 EST Article-I.D.: brl-adm.6078 Posted: Fri Mar 27 22:34:11 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Mar-87 17:42:04 EST Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 33 From: Guy Harris responds to me: >No dice. Berkeley expressly provides software on an `as is' basis. SUN >is a *real company*, supposedly with some degree of professionalism >and presumption of support. If SUN passed on a Berkeley bug it becomes >SUN's bug, because they were the last to muck with it. > >I am not saying that csh should not have this feature... Make up your mind - is it a bug or a feature? If the latter (which I contend it is - it may be a good feature, or a bad feature, but since it was *intended* to behave that way, it's a feature), then Sun didn't "pass on a Berkeley bug", since it's not a bug. Oops, perhaps I didn't make myself clear. The original poster asked about a lpd script. The response said that `SUN did you a favor by changing the csh'. To which Guy responded correctly by saying that the -b option was put in by Berkeley. Up to this point we agree. This change broke lots of scripts, including the lpd one SUN `inherited'. Where we differ is that I feel that even tho SUN inherited the bug, it is still their responsibility to fix it. I would even hazard a guess that given some time to reflect on this, Guy would also agree. Note that I am *not* saying that the bug is in csh. I am saying that the change in the csh forces a change in some csh scripts. Berkeley *should* have changed the appropriate scripts. They did not. Nobody seems much surprised by this. I am saying that SUN is still on the hook for changing them and making them right. After all, they put their name on it. At least it's a shell script. (Root Boy) Jim "Just Say Yes" Cottrell I feel better about world problems now!