From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Apr 17 2:56:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9ECB37B941 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 02:56:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA10920 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:56:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA00342 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:56:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 837C137B76B for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 01:10:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@03-140.006.popsite.net [216.126.134.140]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA87811; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 01:10:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id BAA03114; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 01:10:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 01:10:15 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shells V2 Message-ID: <20000417011015.A3064@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <200004160031.e3G0Vt302555@cwsys.cwsent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200004160031.e3G0Vt302555@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 05:31:26PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 05:31:26PM -0700, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > With commit of tcsh, I'd like to raise another question. Are there any > plans to replace sh with bash? No. > Granted they're not 100% compatible, This is a big problem. We don't have C-shell scripts in the base system (Ok, one non-critical one). However, /etc is full of critical Bourne shell scripts. > I still think it might be a good idea to replace sh with bash. The Bash license would also prevent it, if bash2 were 100% compatible with ash (/bin/sh). I'd bring in the real Korn Shell way before I'd bring in Bash. Tcsh is not a new shell, it is just a newer version of the 4.4BSD C-shell. > If replacing sh with bash is unpalatable for some or most of us, what > about putting bash2 in the base system along side of sh? 3. GNU Public Virus Licensed. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message