03-16-2016
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jlliagre
I know I'm replying to a 10 years old post but nevertheless, this was and is still incorrect.
This is all very true. and many thanks for providing the link to the ksh repository.
Even more so, if someone wants a "non-proprietary" OS, UNIX (and rather less the POSIX-standard itself, if we could count that as a "blueprint-OS") is non-proprietary at all. Linux is - at least in a sense - non-proprietary, but it is NOT UNIX. This is not to say it is better or worse than any UNIX - just different. It is about as much "UNIX" as Plan9 or HURD (the GNU-OS) is: in many respects very similar because the lessons of UNIX were rather well learned and in some respects totally different (and not always for the better).
So, the notion that in a completely proprietary OS the shell should be non-proprietary is an artificial demand.
For me the main reason to use the ksh - ksh88, mind you, because it is the default shell in AIX - is that it is IMHO better suited to large-scale shell programming than bash is. I make extensive use of the FPATH feature which lets me put a library of script functions somewhere. bash doesn't have that and even though i have tried hard to come up with a similar functionality i haven't found a way to do it up to now.
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
mp_setproprietaryproperties
MP_SetProprietaryProperties(3MPAPI) Common Multipath Management Library Functions MP_SetProprietaryProperties(3MPAPI)
NAME
MP_SetProprietaryProperties - set proprietary properties
SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -lMPAPI [ library... ]
#include <mpapi.h>
MP_STATUS MP_SetProprietaryProperties(MP_OID oid,
MP_UINT32 count, MP_PROPRIETARY_PROPERTY *pPropertyList);
PARAMETERS
oid The object ID representing an object ID that has type MP_LOAD_BALANCE_PROPIETARY_TYPE, or MP_PLUGIN_PROPERTIES, or MP_MUL-
TIPATH_LOGICAL_UNIT_PROPERTIES instance.
count The number of valid items in pPropertyList.
pPropertyList A pointer to an array of property name/value pairs. This array must contain the same number of elements as does count.
DESCRIPTION
The MP_SetProprietaryProperties() function sets proprietary properties in supported object instances.
This API allows an application with a priori knowledge of proprietary plugin capabilities to set proprietary properties. The pPropertyList
is a list of property name/value pairs. The property names shall be a subset of the proprietary property names listed in the referenced
object ID.
RETURN VALUES
MP_STATUS_INVALID_OBJECT_TYPE
The oid does not specify a valid object type. This is most likely to happen if an uninitialized object ID is passed to the API.
MP_STATUS_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND
The oid owner ID or object sequence number is invalid.
MP_STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER
The pPropertyList is null, or when one of the properties referenced in the list is not associated with the specified object ID, or the
oid has a type subfield other thanMP_OBJECT_TYPE_PROPRIETARY_LOAD_BALANCE, or MP_OBJECT_TYPE_PLUGIN, or MP_OBJECT_TYPE_MULTIPATH_LU.
MP_STATUS_SUCCESS
The operation is successful.
MP_STATUS_UNSUPPORTED
The API is not supported.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard: ANSI INCITS 412 |
| |Multipath Management API |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |Safe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
libMPAPI(3LIB), attributes(5)
Multipath Management API Version 1.0
SunOS 5.11 15 Feb 2006 MP_SetProprietaryProperties(3MPAPI)