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Date:      Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:30:14 -0800
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com>, Kevin Lyons <klyons@corserv.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tcsh fix
Message-ID:  <20041112033014.GC7195@dhcp120.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041112031122.GA87071@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
References:  <41940880.7070409@corserv.com> <20041112023023.GG19417@silverwraith.com> <20041112031122.GA87071@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>

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On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:11:22AM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> Keep in mind that FreeBSD's /bin/sh is a more powerful shell than was
> available in, say, v7 Unix.

Also keep in mind that ash is not POSIX sh (at least not as completely
as one might like). This tends to bite me when using GNU autotools,
which are hardcoded to prefer bash by default.

Regards,
BMS



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