[c0l0]

Just a few weeks ago, I fixed a problem in an internal tool (that still also runs on an ancient Solaris 10 box) by switching from `awk` to `gawk`, since the former would briefly whine on stderr and quit whenever a line in its input would contain too many fields. A recent change had managed to break that undocumented barrier.

In this case there's at least no silent breakage involved, but the badly written shell script that called it did not bother to check for that condition, and a fair number of heads were scratched for a while as a consequence.

[andylynch]

Yep. When we did Solaris installs GNU coreutils and friends were high on the list. Incidentally nice to see sunfreeware.com is still going!