Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2018, #01; Tue, 4)

Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 4:29 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] wrote:

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I recently gained access to a Solaris 10 SPARC (5.10) box and discovered
that the chainlint.sed implementation in 2.19.0 has more sed portability
issues.

First, whoever implemented the /bin/sed on Solaris apparently read the
POSIX requirements for a max length label of 8 to mean that 8 characters
should include the colon, so a bunch of things fail because of that, but
are fixed with a shorter 7 character label.

I'm pretty sure that Solaris 'sed' predates POSIX by a good bit, but
that's neither here nor there.

I thought that we long time ago declared that it is a lost cause to
use Solaris with only tools in /bin and /usr/bin and instead depend
on /usr/xpg[46]/bin; did something happen recently to make us
reconsider the position?  If not, let's not waste time worrying
about /bin/sed over there.