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Date:      Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:19:56 +0200
From:      Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Shells
Message-ID:  <20000420101956.D14732@cons.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000417011641.C3064@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 01:16:41AM -0700
References:  <200004160306.VAA30436@harmony.village.org> <27309.955883220@zippy.cdrom.com> <20000417011641.C3064@dragon.nuxi.com>

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In <20000417011641.C3064@dragon.nuxi.com>, David O'Brien wrote: 
> On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 04:07:00AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > 
> > sh scripts run fine on bash and I'll certainly challenge anyone to
> > find me a /bin/sh script which behaves differently when fed to our
> > 5.0-current ash shell vs bash 2.03.
> 
> Funny that last time I proposed to replace ash with pdksh, way to many
> people claimed all our /etc/ scripts would break.  Now people feel that
> our /etc/ scripts are fully executable by a shell other than ash.

Our /etc/rc (except the -T stuff for local/etc/rc.d) is certainly
executable by bash2.

But bash2 is an almost bugfree shell, while pdksh and zsh are not, so
you can't transfer the claim the way you did.

Martin
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