From sacadmin Wed Mar 28 11:50:01 2007 Received: from sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM (sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM [129.158.71.19]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2SIo0nQ004242 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:50:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM (nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.11.74]) by sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.3/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l2SInwcp029267 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:psarc@sun.com>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:49:59 +0800 (SGT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JFM00E01MZ9JW00@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM> for psarc@sun.com (ORCPT psarc@sun.com); Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:49:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brmea-mail-2.sun.com ([192.18.98.43]) by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JFM00I9BMZ936E0@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM> for psarc@sun.com (ORCPT psarc@sun.com); Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:49:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fe-amer-04.sun.com ([192.18.108.178]) by brmea-mail-2.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l2SInvgO025683 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:49:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from conversion-daemon.mail-amer.sun.com by mail-amer.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) id <0JFM00201MRBJ200@mail-amer.sun.com> (original mail from John.Fischer@Sun.COM) for psarc@sun.com (ORCPT psarc@sun.com); Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:49:57 -0600 (MDT) Received: from 129.145.154.81 ([129.145.154.81]) by mail-amer.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPSA id <0JFM00LQAMZ7FSF4@mail-amer.sun.com> for psarc@sun.com (ORCPT psarc@sun.com); Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:49:56 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:49:55 -0700 From: John Fischer Subject: PSARC/2007/189 - GNU diffutils Sender: John.Fischer@sun.com To: psarc@sun.com Cc: John Fischer , Dermot McCluskey Reply-to: John.Fischer@sun.com Message-id: <1175107795.14534.62.camel@sr1-umpk-31> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6.335 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Boundary_(ID_HcOW7znsztkIjHJMj5lHUQ)" X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 Status: RO Content-Length: 3283 --Boundary_(ID_HcOW7znsztkIjHJMj5lHUQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT PSARC, I am sponsoring this project for Dermot McCluskey of the JDS group in Dublin Ireland. The case directory contains this proposal and supporting diff util HTML documentation from the community website. I have set the timer for Wednesday April 4th, 2007. This project is proposing to integrate the GNU diff utilities into the Solaris WOS in a Patch release of Solaris. It will be following the /usr/gnu recommendation per PSARC/2007/047. Thanks, John --Boundary_(ID_HcOW7znsztkIjHJMj5lHUQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ASCII; name=proposal.txt Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: attachment; filename=proposal.txt GNU diffutils 1. Summary This fast-track introduces GNU diffutils, version 2.8.1, into the Solaris WOS. Patch release binding is requested. 2. Discussion Diffutils is a set of utilities for displaying differences between text files. These utilities are commonly used by open-souce applications. A version is included with the CBE tools for JDS, which is provided as a download on opensolaris.org. They will also be used, if installed, by Mercurial. Diffutils is delivered as four command-line programs: cmp, diff, diff3, and sdiff. Detailed information is available from the Diffutils website [1] and a copy of the manual is in the case directory. GNU diffutils is currently available in the Solaris Companion CD (CCD). This proposal removes it from the CCD and adds it to the SFW consolidation. Non-GNU versions of these commands are already available in Solaris. These are not, however, fully compatible with the GNU variants, which are explicitly required by some applications. The existing Solaris commands have identical names and are installed in /usr/bin. Therefore the GNU diffutils will be installed in /usr/gnu, with g-prefixed symbolic links to each command and manpage in /usr, as per the guidelines of PSARC/2007/047, /usr/gnu [2]. 3. Interfaces Exported Interfaces =================== SUNWgnu-diffutils Uncommitted Package name /usr/gnu/bin/cmp Uncommitted Command /usr/gnu/bin/diff Uncommitted Command /usr/gnu/bin/diff3 Uncommitted Command /usr/gnu/bin/sdiff Uncommitted Command /usr/bin/gcmp Uncommitted Symbolic link /usr/bin/gdiff Uncommitted Symbolic link /usr/bin/gdiff3 Uncommitted Symbolic link /usr/bin/gsdiff Uncommitted Symbolic link /usr/share/info/diff.info Uncommitted Info document /usr/gnu/share/man/man1/cmp.1 Uncommitted manpage /usr/gnu/share/man/man1/diff.1 Uncommitted manpage /usr/gnu/share/man/man1/diff3.1 Uncommitted manpage /usr/gnu/share/man/man1/sdiff.1 Uncommitted manpage /usr/share/man/man1/gcmp.1 Uncommitted Symbolic link /usr/share/man/man1/gdiff.1 Uncommitted Symbolic link /usr/share/man/man1/gdiff3.1 Uncommitted Symbolic link /usr/share/man/man1/gsdiff.1 Uncommitted Symbolic link 4. References [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/diffutils.html [2] S. Hahn, B. Smaalders, and R. Orth, PSARC/2007/047: /usr/gnu APPENDIX A [ copy of http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_mono/diff.html ] --Boundary_(ID_HcOW7znsztkIjHJMj5lHUQ)-- From sacadmin Wed Mar 28 13:20:14 2007 Received: from sunmail3mpk.sfbay.sun.com (sunmail3mpk.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.11.52]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2SKKErA007717 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:20:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (brm-avmta-1.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.4.11]) by sunmail3mpk.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l2SKKBfh006581; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:20:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JFM0030RR5LVS00@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com>; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:20:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: from jurassic-x4600.sfbay.sun.com ([129.146.17.59]) by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JFM00JYUR5KPD30@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com>; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:20:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [129.150.12.53] (vpn-129-150-12-53.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.150.12.53]) by jurassic-x4600.sfbay.sun.com (8.14.0+Sun/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2SKK7n1353503; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:19:51 -1000 From: Joseph Kowalski Subject: Re: PSARC/2007/189 - GNU diffutils In-reply-to: <1175107795.14534.62.camel@sr1-umpk-31> To: John.Fischer@sun.com Cc: psarc@sun.com, Dermot McCluskey Message-id: <460ACDE7.3030206@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 References: <1175107795.14534.62.camel@sr1-umpk-31> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060925) Status: RO Content-Length: 556 John Fischer wrote: > Non-GNU versions of these commands are already available > in Solaris. These are not, however, fully compatible > with the GNU variants, which are explicitly required by > some applications. The existing Solaris commands > have identical names and are installed in /usr/bin. > Therefore the GNU diffutils will be installed in > /usr/gnu, with g-prefixed symbolic links to each > command and manpage in /usr, as per the guidelines of > PSARC/2007/047, /usr/gnu [2]. > Are the GNU versions full supersets of ours? - jek3 From sacadmin Thu Mar 29 06:22:33 2007 Received: from sunmail5.uk.sun.com (sunmail5.UK.Sun.COM [129.156.85.165]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2TDMWaA004065 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:22:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (nwk-avmta-2.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.155.6]) by sunmail5.uk.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l2TDMOt6017574 for <@sunmail3mpk.sfbay.sun.com:psarc@sun.com>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:22:30 +0100 (BST) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JFO001092HG8L00@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com> for psarc@sun.com (ORCPT psarc@sun.com); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:22:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gmp-ea-fw-1.sun.com ([129.156.42.6]) by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JFO000LU2HFSQ00@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com> for psarc@sun.com (ORCPT psarc@sun.com); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:22:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d1-emea-09.sun.com ([192.18.2.119]) by gmp-ea-fw-1.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l2TDMQ8x009942 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:22:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from conversion-daemon.d1-emea-09.sun.com by d1-emea-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) id <0JFO00J0125AP000@d1-emea-09.sun.com> (original mail from Dermot.McCluskey@Sun.COM) for psarc@sun.com (ORCPT psarc@sun.com); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:22:26 +0100 (BST) Received: from [129.156.220.16] by d1-emea-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPSA id <0JFO00HYS2HD0WU3@d1-emea-09.sun.com>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:22:26 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:22:25 +0100 From: Dermot McCluskey Subject: Re: PSARC/2007/189 - GNU diffutils In-reply-to: <460ACDE7.3030206@sun.com> Sender: Dermot.McCluskey@sun.com To: Joseph Kowalski Cc: John.Fischer@sun.com, psarc@sun.com Message-id: <460BBD91.7070104@Sun.COM> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 References: <1175107795.14534.62.camel@sr1-umpk-31> <460ACDE7.3030206@sun.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20060120 Status: RO Content-Length: 379 Joseph Kowalski wrote On 03/28/07 21:19,: > Are the GNU versions full supersets of ours? The supported command-line options are a full superset of the existing diff commands. However, the formatting of the output can differ. Also, the technique for processing files appears to differ, such that the same 2 input files can produce different, but equivalent, diffs. - Dermot From sacadmin Thu Mar 29 09:13:15 2007 Received: from sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM (sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM [129.158.71.19]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2TGDEv1008312 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:13:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM (nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.11.74]) by sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.3/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l2TGCw2v016986; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:13:07 +0800 (SGT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JFO0040XADSPH00@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:13:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM ([129.146.226.64]) by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JFO00MR8ADREE30@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM (spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.226.64]) by spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with SMTP id l2TGD3rR020071; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:13:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:13:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Cragun Subject: Re: PSARC/2007/189 - GNU diffutils To: jek3@sun.com, Dermot.McCluskey@sun.com Cc: John.Fischer@sun.com, psarc@sun.com Reply-to: Don Cragun Message-id: <200703291613.l2TGD3rR020071@spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: dtmail 1.3.0 @(#)CDE Version 1.5.5 SunOS 5.9 sun4u sparc Content-type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-MD5: /WUthZZV70gyESK19tHVog== X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 Status: RO Content-Length: 1210 >Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:22:25 +0100 >From: Dermot McCluskey > >Joseph Kowalski wrote On 03/28/07 21:19,: > >> Are the GNU versions full supersets of ours? > > >The supported command-line options are a full superset >of the existing diff commands. > >However, the formatting of the output can differ. Also, >the technique for processing files appears to differ, such >that the same 2 input files can produce different, but >equivalent, diffs. > >- Dermot Dermot, Although it may be true that you can do anything with the GNU versions that can be done with the current /usr/bin versions, I don't believe it is correct to say that they are superset commands. If you have a script that uses /usr/bin/diff and use /usr/bin/gdiff instead (without changing options or adding POSIXLY_CORRECT, or both) you won't get the same results. For cases PSARC has dealt with in the past, when we have talked about adding superset commands we meant that the new (superset) command can be used instead of the original command without change and get the same behavior. (The new superset command just provides more options that were not supported by the prior instance of that command.) - Don From sacadmin Thu Mar 29 09:19:27 2007 Received: from sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM (sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM [129.158.71.19]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2TGJQxE008432 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:19:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM (nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.11.74]) by sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.3/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l2TGJL3F019029; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:19:23 +0800 (SGT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JFO0050DAO78Y00@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:19:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gmp-ea-fw-1.sun.com ([129.156.42.5]) by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JFO00MTVAO6EC60@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:19:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d1-emea-10.sun.com (d1-emea-10.sun.com [192.18.2.120]) by gmp-ea-fw-1.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l2TGJHmf005649; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:19:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from conversion-daemon.d1-emea-10.sun.com by d1-emea-10.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) id <0JFO00I01AL29A00@d1-emea-10.sun.com> (original mail from Darren.Moffat@Sun.COM); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:19:17 +0100 (BST) Received: from [129.156.173.21] by d1-emea-10.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPSA id <0JFO0022MAO45K20@d1-emea-10.sun.com>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:19:17 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:19:16 +0100 From: Darren J Moffat Subject: Re: PSARC/2007/189 - GNU diffutils In-reply-to: <200703291613.l2TGD3rR020071@spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM> Sender: Darren.Moffat@sun.com To: Don Cragun Cc: jek3@sun.com, Dermot.McCluskey@sun.com, John.Fischer@sun.com, psarc@sun.com Message-id: <460BE704.70408@Sun.COM> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 References: <200703291613.l2TGD3rR020071@spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (X11/20070227) Status: RO Content-Length: 698 Don Cragun wrote: > If you have a script that uses /usr/bin/diff and use > /usr/bin/gdiff instead (without changing options or adding > POSIXLY_CORRECT, or both) you won't get the same results. Does getting identical output here actually matter for *this* tool set as long as the resulting output is functionally the same and where necessary the standards behaviour is preserved (without requiring new flags/environment variables or what ever) ? I guess since these commands are covered by standards the real question is are these new commands able to be used as the standards conforming versions and can they replace the existing /usr/bin implementation in doing so. -- Darren J Moffat From sacadmin Thu Mar 29 09:24:42 2007 Received: from sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM (sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM [129.158.71.19]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2TGOe0H008512 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:24:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM (nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.11.74]) by sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.3/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l2TGORaK020543; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:24:38 +0800 (SGT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JFO0050JAX0M200@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:24:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sfbaymail1sca.SFBay.Sun.COM ([129.145.154.35]) by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JFO00MHXAWZEI60@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:24:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [129.146.108.211] (almas.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.108.211]) by sfbaymail1sca.SFBay.Sun.COM (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l2TGOVaE014260; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:24:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:24:31 -0700 From: Alan Coopersmith Subject: Re: PSARC/2007/189 - GNU diffutils In-reply-to: <460BE704.70408@Sun.COM> To: Darren J Moffat Cc: Don Cragun , jek3@Sun.COM, Dermot.McCluskey@Sun.COM, John.Fischer@Sun.COM, psarc@Sun.COM Message-id: <460BE83F.3000904@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 References: <200703291613.l2TGD3rR020071@spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM> <460BE704.70408@Sun.COM> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0pre (X11/20070214) Status: RO Content-Length: 1049 Darren J Moffat wrote: > Don Cragun wrote: >> If you have a script that uses /usr/bin/diff and use >> /usr/bin/gdiff instead (without changing options or adding >> POSIXLY_CORRECT, or both) you won't get the same results. > > Does getting identical output here actually matter for *this* tool set > as long as the resulting output is functionally the same and where > necessary the standards behaviour is preserved (without requiring new > flags/environment variables or what ever) ? > > I guess since these commands are covered by standards the real question > is are these new commands able to be used as the standards conforming > versions and can they replace the existing /usr/bin implementation in > doing so. Or could we still have a conforming system with /usr/bin/diff being a simple shell script that setenv POSIXLY_CORRECT and then called gdiff to reduce the number of copies of diff source code we maintain? -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering From sacadmin Thu Mar 29 09:39:00 2007 Received: from sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com (sunmail2sca.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.155.234]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2TGd0Gl008831 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:39:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (nwk-avmta-2.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.155.6]) by sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l2TGcuZp025068; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:38:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JFO00903BKV5800@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:38:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM ([129.146.226.64]) by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JFO000UQBKUSQC0@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:38:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM (spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.226.64]) by spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with SMTP id l2TGcsdx020253; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:38:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:38:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Cragun Subject: Re: PSARC/2007/189 - GNU diffutils To: don.cragun@sun.com, Darren.Moffat@sun.com Cc: jek3@sun.com, Dermot.McCluskey@sun.com, John.Fischer@sun.com, psarc@sun.com Reply-to: Don Cragun Message-id: <200703291638.l2TGcsdx020253@spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: dtmail 1.3.0 @(#)CDE Version 1.5.5 SunOS 5.9 sun4u sparc Content-type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-MD5: RyzLT5+4W+5RdPF6T+1Zdw== X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 Status: RO Content-Length: 1947 According to the materials in the case directory, patch doesn't conform to POSIX requirements unless you add the --posix option or define POSIXLY_CORRECT in your environment. Although not explicitly stated in the case materials, it looks like you have to define POSIXLY_CORRECT in your environment before using any of these utilities to avoid option reordering (which is not allowed by the standards and is explicitly not allowed by the CLIP case). So you can't take an existing command line that includes a filename as an operand if that filename's first character is '-' and have it match standards requirements nor have it match the behavior of any of these utilities that we currently have in /usr/bin without modifying the command line if you want the same behavior. Furthermore, when you set POSIXLY_CORRECT many GNU utilities disable all options that are not specified by the standards. So, if you have a /usr/bin/utility where Sun has provided compatible extensions to the standard, invoking /usr/bin/"g"utility with POSIXLY_CORRECT set may yield unknown option complaints from "g"utility that would have been accepted by utility. - Don >Return-Path: >Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:19:16 +0100 > >Don Cragun wrote: >> If you have a script that uses /usr/bin/diff and use >> /usr/bin/gdiff instead (without changing options or adding >> POSIXLY_CORRECT, or both) you won't get the same results. > >Does getting identical output here actually matter for *this* tool set >as long as the resulting output is functionally the same and where >necessary the standards behaviour is preserved (without requiring new >flags/environment variables or what ever) ? > >I guess since these commands are covered by standards the real question >is are these new commands able to be used as the standards conforming >versions and can they replace the existing /usr/bin implementation in >doing so. > >-- >Darren J Moffat From sacadmin Thu Mar 29 09:45:15 2007 Received: from newsunmail1brm.central.sun.com (newsunmail1brm.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.62.245]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2TGjFvJ009131 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:45:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (brm-avmta-1.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.4.11]) by newsunmail1brm.central.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l2TGjB5E038680; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:45:14 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JFO00719BVD1M00@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:45:13 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gmp-ea-fw-1.sun.com ([129.156.42.5]) by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JFO005NGBVBY600@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:45:12 -0600 (MDT) Received: from d1-emea-09.sun.com (d1-emea-09.sun.com [192.18.2.119]) by gmp-ea-fw-1.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l2TGjATl007906; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:45:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from conversion-daemon.d1-emea-09.sun.com by d1-emea-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) id <0JFO00G01BRM2I00@d1-emea-09.sun.com> (original mail from Darren.Moffat@Sun.COM); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:45:10 +0100 (BST) Received: from [129.156.173.21] by d1-emea-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPSA id <0JFO00FSUBVAQJ40@d1-emea-09.sun.com>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:45:10 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:45:10 +0100 From: Darren J Moffat Subject: Re: PSARC/2007/189 - GNU diffutils In-reply-to: <200703291638.l2TGcsdx020253@spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM> Sender: Darren.Moffat@sun.com To: Don Cragun Cc: jek3@sun.com, Dermot.McCluskey@sun.com, John.Fischer@sun.com, psarc@sun.com Message-id: <460BED16.7040606@Sun.COM> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 References: <200703291638.l2TGcsdx020253@spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (X11/20070227) Status: RO Content-Length: 1865 Don Cragun wrote: > According to the materials in the case directory, patch doesn't conform > to POSIX requirements unless you add the --posix option or define > POSIXLY_CORRECT in your environment. > > Although not explicitly stated in the case materials, it looks like you > have to define POSIXLY_CORRECT in your environment before using any of > these utilities to avoid option reordering (which is not allowed by the > standards and is explicitly not allowed by the CLIP case). CLIP isn't relevant here because of the "when in Rome" caveat. > So you can't take an existing command line that includes a filename as > an operand if that filename's first character is '-' and have it match > standards requirements nor have it match the behavior of any of these > utilities that we currently have in /usr/bin without modifying the > command line if you want the same behavior. > > Furthermore, when you set POSIXLY_CORRECT many GNU utilities disable > all options that are not specified by the standards. So, if you have a > /usr/bin/utility where Sun has provided compatible extensions to the > standard, invoking /usr/bin/"g"utility with POSIXLY_CORRECT set may > yield unknown option complaints from "g"utility that would have been > accepted by utility. So I read that as (for example) /usr/xpg?/bin/diff could just be a script that calls the GNU diff with --posix (or sets the environment variable). That would then allow for /usr/bin/diff to be the GNU one and we would still be standards compliant, right ? Since we have already heard that the functionality is a super set of the existing Solaris /usr/bin variants. Seems to me, unless I'm really not getting it, that this case (or maybe a follow on to it might be more appropriate) could have /usr/bin/diff be the GNU one and a small wrapper around it be the xpg? one. -- Darren J Moffat From sacadmin Thu Mar 29 10:46:31 2007 Received: from sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com (sunmail2sca.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.155.234]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2THkUSW011111 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:46:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM (nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.11.74]) by sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l2THkQ2W010884; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:46:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JFO00D03EPE0V00@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:46:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM ([129.146.226.64]) by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JFO00MUCEPBEJA0@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:46:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM (spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.226.64]) by spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with SMTP id l2THkMRv020683; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:46:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:46:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Cragun Subject: Re: PSARC/2007/189 - GNU diffutils To: Darren.Moffat@sun.com Cc: Dermot.McCluskey@sun.com, John.Fischer@sun.com, psarc@sun.com Reply-to: Don Cragun Message-id: <200703291746.l2THkMRv020683@spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: dtmail 1.3.0 @(#)CDE Version 1.5.5 SunOS 5.9 sun4u sparc Content-type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-MD5: lCBzoRABnyQVv5cjJjqQnA== X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 Status: RO Content-Length: 1770 >Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:45:10 +0100 >From: Darren J Moffat > >Seems to me, unless I'm really not getting it, that this case (or maybe >a follow on to it might be more appropriate) could have /usr/bin/diff be >the GNU one and a small wrapper around it be the xpg? one. > >-- >Darren J Moffat Darren, You don't get it. /usr/bin/diff is a superset utility providing all of the features required by SVID3, XPG3, XPG4, SUS, SUSv2, SUSv3, POSIX.2-1992, and POSIX.1-2001 and several options provided by Sun (including -i which ignore upper/lower case differences) that are not specified by POSIX. (There is no /usr/xpg*/bin/diff.) If I have two files in the current directory named "-r" and "x", and I issue the command: diff -i x -r /usr/bin/diff will give me a case insensitive diff listing between the files "x" and "-r". gdiff will tell me I'm missing an operand after reordering the command line to be: diff -i -r x and treating the second operand as an option. gdiff with POSIXLY_CORRECT defined in the environment will probably give me something like: diff: illegal option -i because the -i option is not specified by POSIX. So, installing gdiff in /usr/bin as diff doesn't work. And, replacing /usr/bin/diff with the sh or ksh shell script: POSIXLY_CORRECT gdiff "$@" doesn't work either. I agree that CLIP doesn't apply as long as these new "g" utilities are in the GNU utility set (Rome in this case). But since the standards conforming utilities that in currently in /usr/bin that you're suggesting can be replaced by the "g" utilities, we have a problem because we have two different Romes that you essentially want to replace with one binary. Because we have two Romes, gdiff is not a superset of diff. - Don From sacadmin Thu Mar 29 10:59:52 2007 Received: from sunmail3mpk.sfbay.sun.com (sunmail3mpk.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.11.52]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2THxqEe012189 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (brm-avmta-1.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.4.11]) by sunmail3mpk.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l2THxlOo021563; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:59:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JFO00E0HFBN9000@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:59:48 -0600 (MDT) Received: from phorcys.east.sun.com ([129.148.174.143]) by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JFO005ATFBLY660@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:59:45 -0600 (MDT) Received: from phorcys.east.sun.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phorcys.east.sun.com (8.14.0+Sun/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2THxjUe018439; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:59:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from carlsonj@localhost) by phorcys.east.sun.com (8.14.0+Sun/8.14.0/Submit) id l2THxjZu018436; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:59:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:59:45 -0400 From: James Carlson Subject: Re: PSARC/2007/189 - GNU diffutils In-reply-to: <200703291746.l2THkMRv020683@spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM> To: Don Cragun Cc: Darren.Moffat@sun.com, Dermot.McCluskey@sun.com, John.Fischer@sun.com, psarc@sun.com Message-id: <17931.65169.308552.395592@gargle.gargle.HOWL> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: VM 7.01 under Emacs 21.3.1 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 References: <200703291746.l2THkMRv020683@spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM> Status: RO Content-Length: 555 Don Cragun writes: > gdiff with POSIXLY_CORRECT defined in the environment will probably give me > something like: > diff: illegal option -i > because the -i option is not specified by POSIX. Bad example. It actually does work as expected: % echo a > ./x % echo b > ./-r % env POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 gdiff -i x -r 1c1 < a --- > b -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 From sacadmin Thu Mar 29 11:06:27 2007 Received: from newsunmail1brm.central.sun.com (newsunmail1brm.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.62.245]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2TI6RHd012379 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:06:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (nwk-avmta-2.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.155.6]) by newsunmail1brm.central.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l2TI6Pqs055137; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:06:26 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JFO00C0XFMQZP00@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:06:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gmp-ea-fw-1.sun.com ([129.156.42.6]) by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JFO00CEEFMOJT00@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:06:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d1-emea-09.sun.com ([192.18.2.119]) by gmp-ea-fw-1.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l2TI6Okd013045; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:06:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from conversion-daemon.d1-emea-09.sun.com by d1-emea-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) id <0JFO00501FMLLS00@d1-emea-09.sun.com> (original mail from Darren.Moffat@Sun.COM); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:06:24 +0100 (BST) Received: from [129.156.173.21] by d1-emea-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPSA id <0JFO00F67FMNQJ50@d1-emea-09.sun.com>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:06:24 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:06:23 +0100 From: Darren J Moffat Subject: Re: PSARC/2007/189 - GNU diffutils In-reply-to: <200703291746.l2THkMRv020683@spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM> Sender: Darren.Moffat@Sun.COM To: Don Cragun Cc: Dermot.McCluskey@Sun.COM, John.Fischer@Sun.COM, psarc@Sun.COM Message-id: <460C001F.7090101@Sun.COM> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 References: <200703291746.l2THkMRv020683@spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (X11/20070227) Status: RO Content-Length: 1667 Don Cragun wrote: > You don't get it. /usr/bin/diff is a superset utility Okay but.... > providing all of the features required by SVID3, XPG3, XPG4, SUS, > SUSv2, SUSv3, POSIX.2-1992, and POSIX.1-2001 and several options > provided by Sun (including -i which ignore upper/lower case > differences) that are not specified by POSIX. (There is no > /usr/xpg*/bin/diff.) If I have two files in the current directory > named "-r" and "x", and I issue the command: > diff -i x -r > /usr/bin/diff will give me a case insensitive diff listing between the > files "x" and "-r". > > gdiff will tell me I'm missing an operand after reordering the command > line to be: > diff -i -r x > and treating the second operand as an option. > > gdiff with POSIXLY_CORRECT defined in the environment will probably give me > something like: > diff: illegal option -i > because the -i option is not specified by POSIX. Interestingly it doesn't: SunOS enoexec 5.11 snv_60 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire enoexec:pts/197$ cat x Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.11 snv_60 October 2007 enoexec:pts/197$ cat ./-r SUN mICROSYSTEMS iNC. sUNos 5.11 SNV_60 oCTOBER 2007 enoexec:pts/197$ /usr/bin/diff -i x -r enoexec:pts/197$ echo $? 0 enoexec:pts/197$ gdiff -i x -r gdiff: missing operand after `x' gdiff: Try `gdiff --help' for more information. enoexec:pts/197$ POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 gdiff -i x -r enoexec:pts/197$ echo $? 0 So maybe /usr/bin/diff is really exec'ing gdiff with the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment set. So I'm not sure I understand the problem yet. Is it that the existing /usr/bin/diff stuff does things that the GNU one doesn't do ? -- Darren J Moffat From sacadmin Thu Mar 29 11:40:07 2007 Received: from sunmail3mpk.sfbay.sun.com (sunmail3mpk.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.11.52]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2TIe7mo012883 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (brm-avmta-1.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.4.11]) by sunmail3mpk.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l2TIe2Rg029622; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:40:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JFO00H0FH6RWG00@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:40:03 -0600 (MDT) Received: from jurassic-x4600.sfbay.sun.com ([129.146.17.59]) by brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JFO005ZRH6MYC90@brm-avmta-1.central.sun.com>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:40:02 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [129.150.12.53] (vpn-129-150-12-53.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.150.12.53]) by jurassic-x4600.sfbay.sun.com (8.14.0+Sun/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2TIdva6903593; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:39:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:39:38 -1000 From: Joseph Kowalski Subject: Re: PSARC/2007/189 - GNU diffutils In-reply-to: <460BE83F.3000904@sun.com> To: Alan Coopersmith Cc: Darren J Moffat , Don Cragun , Dermot.McCluskey@sun.com, John.Fischer@sun.com, psarc@sun.com Message-id: <460C07EA.2090105@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 References: <200703291613.l2TGD3rR020071@spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM> <460BE704.70408@Sun.COM> <460BE83F.3000904@sun.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060925) Status: RO Content-Length: 459 Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Or could we still have a conforming system with /usr/bin/diff being a > simple shell script that setenv POSIXLY_CORRECT and then called gdiff > to reduce the number of copies of diff source code we maintain? Which really becomes a perhaps good implementation suggestion, lowering support costs. Its good, but I'm much more motivated about not creating new file system objects (like /usr/gnu/bin/diff) if we can avoid it. - jek3 From sacadmin Thu Mar 29 11:40:39 2007 Received: from sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM (sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM [129.158.71.19]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2TIectR012954 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:40:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (nwk-avmta-2.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.145.155.6]) by sunmail4.Singapore.Sun.COM (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.3/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l2TIeSAV004236; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:40:31 +0800 (SGT) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JFO00E01H7IAK00@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:40:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM ([129.146.226.64]) by nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JFO00CODH7HJT20@nwk-avmta-2.sfbay.sun.com>; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:40:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM (spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.226.64]) by spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with SMTP id l2TIeTRr020958; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:40:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:40:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Cragun Subject: Re: PSARC/2007/189 - GNU diffutils To: james.d.carlson@sun.com Cc: Dermot.McCluskey@sun.com, John.Fischer@sun.com, psarc@sun.com Reply-to: Don Cragun Message-id: <200703291840.l2TIeTRr020958@spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: dtmail 1.3.0 @(#)CDE Version 1.5.5 SunOS 5.9 sun4u sparc Content-type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-MD5: kzcgzrIEaa/KxawVSvyneA== X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 Status: RO Content-Length: 564 >Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:59:45 -0400 >From: James Carlson > >Don Cragun writes: >> gdiff with POSIXLY_CORRECT defined in the environment will probably give me >> something like: >> diff: illegal option -i >> because the -i option is not specified by POSIX. > >Bad example. It actually does work as expected: > >% echo a > ./x >% echo b > ./-r >% env POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 gdiff -i x -r >1c1 >< a >--- >> b You're right; bad example. Try -h (which is not documented as an option to gdiff in the case materials) instead of -i. - Don From sacadmin Wed Apr 4 10:29:08 2007 Received: from sunmail5.uk.sun.com (sunmail5.UK.Sun.COM [129.156.85.165]) by sac.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l34HT7e0025549 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:29:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM (nwk-avmta-1.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.11.74]) by sunmail5.uk.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id l34HSWJb028422 for <@sunmail2sca.sfbay.sun.com:psarc@sun.com>; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 18:28:34 +0100 (BST) Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) id <0JFZ0060JHVKXV00@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM> for psarc@sun.com (ORCPT psarc@sun.com); Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:28:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brmea-mail-4.sun.com ([192.18.98.36]) by nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-3.04 (built Jul 15 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JFZ00LUJHVAELB0@nwk-avmta-1.sfbay.Sun.COM> for psarc@sun.com (ORCPT psarc@sun.com); Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:28:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fe-amer-09.sun.com ([192.18.108.183]) by brmea-mail-4.sun.com (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l34HSMap013422 for ; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:28:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from conversion-daemon.mail-amer.sun.com by mail-amer.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) id <0JFZ00C01GA6SZ00@mail-amer.sun.com> (original mail from John.Fischer@Sun.COM) for psarc@sun.com (ORCPT psarc@sun.com); Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:28:22 -0600 (MDT) Received: from 129.145.154.81 ([129.145.154.81]) by mail-amer.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPSA id <0JFZ004F7HV01BJK@mail-amer.sun.com> for psarc@sun.com (ORCPT psarc@sun.com); Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:28:13 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:28:12 -0700 From: John Fischer Subject: Re: PSARC/2007/189 - GNU diffutils In-reply-to: <200703291840.l2TIeTRr020958@spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM> Sender: John.Fischer@sun.com To: psarc@sun.com Cc: John Fischer , Dermot McCluskey Reply-to: John.Fischer@sun.com Message-id: <1175707692.14534.187.camel@sr1-umpk-31> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6.335 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296 References: <200703291840.l2TIeTRr020958@spartan.SFBay.Sun.COM> Status: RO Content-Length: 724 Darmot, This case was approved today at PSARC. Thanks, John On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 11:40, Don Cragun wrote: > >Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:59:45 -0400 > >From: James Carlson > > > >Don Cragun writes: > >> gdiff with POSIXLY_CORRECT defined in the environment will probably give me > >> something like: > >> diff: illegal option -i > >> because the -i option is not specified by POSIX. > > > >Bad example. It actually does work as expected: > > > >% echo a > ./x > >% echo b > ./-r > >% env POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 gdiff -i x -r > >1c1 > >< a > >--- > >> b > > You're right; bad example. Try -h (which is not documented as an > option to gdiff in the case materials) instead of -i. > > - Don >