From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 20 5:10:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from green.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F320A150C4; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 05:10:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by green.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA03632; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:09:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:09:53 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman X-Sender: green@green.dyndns.org To: Martin Cracauer Cc: "David O'Brien" , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sh(1) broken caching [was: Re: Broken sh(1)?] In-Reply-To: <19991220105812.A16754@cons.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 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