Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:21:23 -0500 From: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Frank Shute <frank@esperance-linux.co.uk>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.] Message-ID: <1197850883.4230.3.camel@tomcat.straycat.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <20071215021349.GF2062@kobe.laptop> References: <20071214010542.GA19553@demeter.hydra> <200712132012.32729.mike.jeays@rogers.com> <20071214211008.GA12935@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <20071215021349.GF2062@kobe.laptop>
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On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 04:13 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-12-14 21:10, Frank Shute <frank@esperance-linux.co.uk> wrote: > > I used bash for an interactive shell for about 5 years until I > > discovered the goodness of pdksh. About half the size, statically > > linked, not full of bugs and better editing features. Plus it's not > > GPL. > > Hi Frank, > > Now that you mention pdksh, have you tried mksh (in Ports too)? > > I've installed it and successfully run moderately large ksh scripts > (like the webrev(1) utility of OpenSolaris), and it is about an order of > magnitude smaller than pdksh here: > > % keramida@kobe:/usr/local/bin$ ls -ld mksh bash ksh > % -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 684699 Dec 9 19:51 bash > % -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 2390645 Aug 31 17:07 ksh > % -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 236202 Dec 9 18:34 mksh > % keramida@kobe:/usr/local/bin$ ldd mksh bash ksh > % mksh: > % libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x280ae000) > % bash: > % libncurses.so.7 => /lib/libncurses.so.7 (0x28101000) > % libintl.so.8 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8 (0x28144000) > % libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x28156000) > % libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x2824b000) > % ldd: ksh: not a dynamic executable > % keramida@kobe:/usr/local/bin$ > I've maintained a port of OpenBSD's pdksh for some time but I've never committed it. Think of pdksh but still actively maintained. http://people.freebsd.org/~tmclaugh/files/openksh/openksh-4.2.shar [tom@releng-7-fbsd tom]$ ls -al /usr/local/bin/ksh -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 192032 Dec 16 18:22 /usr/local/bin/ksh* tom -- | tmclaugh at sdf.lonestar.org tmclaugh at FreeBSD.org | | FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSD.org |
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