From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: schily@schily.net (Joerg Schilling) Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 15:23:25 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Oracle euthanizes Solaris 12, expunging it from roadmap In-Reply-To: <1484918800.4043318.854019536.3CB39B4A@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1484812418.3800555.852554160.1638329B@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1484815787.58807daba38e0@www.paradise.net.nz> <5881f368.ZrpDJbpXm3DIAAjJ%schily@schily.net> <1484918800.4043318.854019536.3CB39B4A@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <58821d5d.xUgQiZSe3DhW87+W%schily@schily.net> Random832 wrote: > I think his assertion is that he personally had originally learned the > command as "mkdir --parents" [which was and is GNU-only], and had to > change to spelling it "-p" when going to non-linux systems, along with > some unspecified behavior differences. This is why I call Linux a system that tries to establich a vendor lock in. Man pages could have been written in a way that makes it obvious that --parents is non-portable, but they rather encourage people to learn gnu long options. Jörg -- EMail:joerg at schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/