From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 20 1:58:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from knight.cons.org (knight.cons.org [194.233.237.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01545152F2; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 01:58:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cracauer@knight.cons.org) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by knight.cons.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA16776; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:58:13 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:58:13 +0100 From: Martin Cracauer To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman Cc: Martin Cracauer , "David O'Brien" , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sh(1) broken caching [was: Re: Broken sh(1)?] Message-ID: <19991220105812.A16754@cons.org> References: <19991217123306.A3177@cons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Brian Fundakowski Feldman on Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 11:45:08PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In , Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > > I still think we should *seriously* consider switching to pdksh. > > > > As I said before, pdksh has other bugs. > > > Also we would loose all the PRs we received in the past. This testing > > effort by our user base is a valuable resource. From the tests I ran > > on all available shells, only bash2 is considerably better than the > > other shells, pdksh has other bugs than our ash, not less. > > HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahahahahaha *cough, HACK, wheeze*. > Ahem. Heh, bash2 considerably better. *continues ROFL* Over the last year, I did an extensive amount of testinging on bourne shell behaviour. bash2 was the only free sh clone that I never had to complain over. Is there something substantially you'd like to contribute to the discussion, like - say - an example where bash-2.03 doesn't work well? If your experience is based on old bash1 stuff, forget it. bash got improved greatly since it is used as the standard shell for a UNIX clone in wide use. Just like our shell improved from the beatings it got because it has been the standard script-executing shell on FreeBSD and NetBSD for (together) > 10 years now. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message