Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:26:54 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Frank Shute <frank@esperance-linux.co.uk>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pdksh vs. mksh info [was: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.] Message-ID: <4765EC7E.6050704@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <1197850883.4230.3.camel@tomcat.straycat.dhs.org> References: <20071214010542.GA19553@demeter.hydra> <200712132012.32729.mike.jeays@rogers.com> <20071214211008.GA12935@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <20071215021349.GF2062@kobe.laptop> <1197850883.4230.3.camel@tomcat.straycat.dhs.org>
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Tom McLaughlin wrote: >> Now that you mention pdksh, have you tried mksh (in Ports too)? >> >> I've installed it and successfully run moderately large ksh scripts >> (like the webrev(1) utility of OpenSolaris), and it is about an order of >> magnitude smaller than pdksh here: >> >> % keramida@kobe:/usr/local/bin$ ls -ld mksh bash ksh >> % -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 684699 Dec 9 19:51 bash >> % -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 2390645 Aug 31 17:07 ksh >> % -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 236202 Dec 9 18:34 mksh >> % keramida@kobe:/usr/local/bin$ ldd mksh bash ksh >> % mksh: >> % libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x280ae000) >> % bash: >> % libncurses.so.7 => /lib/libncurses.so.7 (0x28101000) >> % libintl.so.8 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8 (0x28144000) >> % libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x28156000) >> % libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x2824b000) >> % ldd: ksh: not a dynamic executable >> % keramida@kobe:/usr/local/bin$ >> > > I've maintained a port of OpenBSD's pdksh for some time but I've never > committed it. Think of pdksh but still actively maintained. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~tmclaugh/files/openksh/openksh-4.2.shar > > [tom@releng-7-fbsd tom]$ ls -al /usr/local/bin/ksh > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 192032 Dec 16 18:22 /usr/local/bin/ksh* If you're familiar with pdksh, are you also familiar with ksh93, which is (I believe) Mr. Korn's own shell? If you are, I would be interessted in your opinion of the two, any comparisons you might give.
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