From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Apr 20 1:20:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3425D37B8C1 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 01:20:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA07235 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:20:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id KAA00806 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:20:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (T1-Hansenet.BIK-GmbH.de [192.76.134.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04B4837B8CA; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 01:19:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cracauer@gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (8.9.3/8.7.3) id KAA15857; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:19:56 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:19:56 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer To: "David O'Brien" Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shells Message-ID: <20000420101956.D14732@cons.org> References: <200004160306.VAA30436@harmony.village.org> <27309.955883220@zippy.cdrom.com> <20000417011641.C3064@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000417011641.C3064@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 01:16:41AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message