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 > -- > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ > Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 > -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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