From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 26 16:24:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA13798 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 16:24:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA13791 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 16:24:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16435; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 17:24:03 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd016407; Mon Oct 26 17:23:59 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA29067; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 17:23:52 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810270023.RAA29067@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: sh and ~ expansion To: Studded@gorean.org (Studded) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 00:23:52 +0000 (GMT) Cc: green@zone.syracuse.net, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36339533.49D5D9F0@gorean.org> from "Studded" at Oct 25, 98 01:16:35 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Why don't we just use pdksh? > > Oh dear. I've had in the back of my mind for a long time to suggest us > replacing our pseudo-implementation of sh with Bash in posix mode, but I > haven't made the suggestion because I can think of at least 3 holy wars > that it would start right off hand, and I can guess that there are more > I don't know about. :) Issues (not wars), in order of perceived importance: 1) License; /bin/sh is in the boot path 2) 100% bug compatability with existing /bin/sh 3) size in a "crunched" boot floppy 4) size in general a) image size b) memory footprint 5) standards compliance 6) All other compatability issues 7) All other preference issues 8) Blue. We'll paint the boxes blue. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message