Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 10:58:13 +0100 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sh(1) broken caching [was: Re: Broken sh(1)?] Message-ID: <19991220105812.A16754@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912192343300.1388-100000@green.dyndns.org>; from Brian Fundakowski Feldman on Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 11:45:08PM -0500 References: <19991217123306.A3177@cons.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912192343300.1388-100000@green.dyndns.org>
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In <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912192343300.1388-100000@green.dyndns.org>, 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 <cracauer@cons.org> 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
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