From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 16 9:18:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CF5D14DDC for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:18:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA29076 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:18:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA74195 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:18:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:18:33 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sh(1) broken caching [was: Re: Broken sh(1)?] Message-ID: <19991216091832.A74110@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <712.945183175@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <38565DEA.4487DF53@scc.nl> <19991216154020.A41154@cons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <19991216154020.A41154@cons.org>; from cracauer@cons.org on Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 03:40:20PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-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-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 03:40:20PM +0100, Martin Cracauer wrote: > You can also fool sh into running the *wrong* binary if if you have > two in showdowed paths: pdksh does not suffer from either this problem or the problem that started this thread (and does not coredump). We've shown in the past that pdksh is actually smaller (when linked statically) than ash. I still think we should *seriously* consider switching to pdksh. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message