Installation guide

4Base System Software Notes
This chapter contains notes about issues and known problems with the base
operating system and, whenever possible, provides solutions or workarounds
to those problems.
The following topics are discussed:
• Commands and utilities
• SysMan System Management graphical user interface
• System administration
• Network and communications
• Local Area Transport
• File systems
4.1 Commands and Utilities
The following notes apply to commands and utilities.
4.1.1 Escaped Comment Symbols in a Makefile
The make command will not recognize escaped comment symbols as literal
characters in a Makefile. Comment lines that begin with a # (number sign)
and all text following this symbol up to the end of the line are considered
part of a comment. This is also true even if the symbol is preceded with a
backslash (\).
4.1.2 Security
The following notes describe problems that may occur when using
commands and utilities under certain security settings.
4.1.2.1 Unexpected Command Behavior with ACLs
Programs cannot reliably inspect the permission bits in the stat structure
and determine the access that will be granted to a particular user. On local
file systems, read-only mounts and Access Control Lists (ACLs) can both
modify the access that will be allowed. On remote file systems, in addition