In message <20051213101357.5B8643D87@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es>, Igor Sobrado writes:
> 
> In my humble opinion, it works as documented...
[...]
> After setting VISUAL to emacs, both the shell and the editor are
> set to emacs-mode.  In the second example (setting EDITOR environment
> variable when VISUAL is set) only the editor is changed, as VISUAL
> was previous defined, ksh remains in the old mode (in this case,
> in emacs-mode).

As I said, I believe that this behaviour is the one documented in ksh(1)
but I certainly should improve my english skills.  If a Korn-style shell
must not work as this one, perhaps someone at Sun Microsystems will listen.
I would suggest either sending a message to a Sun related newsgroup (Sun
staff listens and contributes to the official SPARC, SunOS and Solaris
newsgroups) or contributing through the OpenSolaris project.

Obviously, pax(1) behaviour is more difficult to explain for people
that wants to probe that it was doing the right thing.  Symlinks
permissions are meaningless (except if used as a mask to the real
permissions of the files).  File permissions should be preserved and
must never be changed by file management tools.

Best regards,
Igor.