Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 00:23:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: Studded@gorean.org (Studded) Cc: green@zone.syracuse.net, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sh and ~ expansion Message-ID: <199810270023.RAA29067@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <36339533.49D5D9F0@gorean.org> from "Studded" at Oct 25, 98 01:16:35 pm
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> > Why don't we just use pdksh? > > Oh dear. I've had in the back of my mind for a long time to suggest us > replacing our pseudo-implementation of sh with Bash in posix mode, but I > haven't made the suggestion because I can think of at least 3 holy wars > that it would start right off hand, and I can guess that there are more > I don't know about. :) Issues (not wars), in order of perceived importance: 1) License; /bin/sh is in the boot path 2) 100% bug compatability with existing /bin/sh 3) size in a "crunched" boot floppy 4) size in general a) image size b) memory footprint 5) standards compliance 6) All other compatability issues 7) All other preference issues 8) Blue. We'll paint the boxes blue. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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