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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: SunOS4.1.3 to Solaris2.5.1 Porting issues. Date: 16 Dec 1996 13:33:09 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 27 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <593j2l$efa@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <57ik5l$12i$1@shade.twinsun.com> <x7917mx5gx.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <57shh0$o3u@web.nmti.com> <58bdl4$g68@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu> <58ccqm$q13@web.nmti.com> <58hj11$bb6@panix.com> <32ADB280.55AD@jpmorgan.com> <58m3ne$hju@innocence.interface-business.de> <casper.32afd36d@mail.fwi.uva.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:92682 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1831 comp.unix.internals:11642 casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) wrote: > >Well, it looks that BSD does provide better transitional help here > >(despite of the Solaris people calling us ignorant against those > >problems :). > > sigsetmask is not provided in standard libraries becaus eit doesn't > do you any good; the interface was badly designed (if designed at all) That's still no reason to not help your customers in a transition: provide a man page, and put it into libcompat.a. State this in the man page. Or do you really believe that customers who have, heck!, _paid_ for your stuff should get their knowledge from Usenet, as opposed to the system's documentation? I didn't say i would encourage users in using obsolete interfaces either; just help them to find their new way. If you (i.e., SMI) used to ship various interfaces in previous systems (SunOS 4), your customers can expect to at least find a migration guide for the interfaces that have changed. That's been my point. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j