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Date:      Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:09:53 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: sh(1) broken caching [was: Re: Broken sh(1)?]
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912200806470.3617-100000@green.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <19991220105812.A16754@cons.org>

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> 
> 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.

I'm surprised.

> 
> Is there something substantially you'd like to contribute to the
> discussion, like - say - an example where bash-2.03 doesn't work well?

It's definitely broken on some of my scripts before.  If you want me
to go try to find one of those cases, I will.

> 
> 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.

ISTR that bash1 had fundamental design flaws;  it's been redesigned?

> 
> Martin
> -- 
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> 

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