From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Apr 16 11:46:35 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 2FAD537B95F for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 11:46:32 -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 UAA29028 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 20:46:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id UAA01798 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 20:46:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from urban.iinet.net.au (urban.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFC0637B6A6 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 11:46:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from popserver-02.iinet.net.au (popserver-02.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.148]) by urban.iinet.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA08501; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 02:46:06 +0800 Received: from jules.elischer.org (reggae-01-122.nv.iinet.net.au [203.59.62.122]) by popserver-02.iinet.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA25391; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 02:46:02 +0800 Message-ID: <38FA0A1A.63DECDAD@elischer.org> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 11:44:42 -0700 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Peters Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shells References: <31345.955883432@zippy.cdrom.com> <38F9A104.3F54BC7E@elischer.org> <38FA06E0.43004E28@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wes Peters wrote: > > I have been a bash user for many years, but would not want to put bash > in an embedded system for fear of contaminating the code base; Julian's > point is well founded. > consider a 'crunched' binary including bash and a proprietary program. Instant GPL pollution of proprietary program. Julian -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000 ---> X_.---._/ presently in: Perth v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message