From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 26 16:41:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA15474 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 16:41:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tok.qiv.com (tok.qiv.com [205.238.142.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA15463 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 16:41:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdn@acp.qiv.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tok.qiv.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with UUCP id SAA07275; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 18:40:34 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (jdn@localhost) by acp.qiv.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA00702; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 18:23:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jdn@acp.qiv.com) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 18:23:11 -0600 (CST) From: Jay Nelson To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Brian Feldman , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sh and ~ expansion In-Reply-To: <17264.909443748@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >I hate to be a wet blanket, but has anyone compared sizes? /bin/sh is >also a necessary component of the boot floppy and if pdksh bloats us >past 1.44MB and the space can't be reasonably reclaimed elsewhere (and >good luck there since all the obvious avenues of doing so have long >since been tried and/or implemented), that's a show-stopper. > >- Jordan -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 307200 Oct 4 15:22 /bin/sh -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 167936 Mar 22 1998 /usr/local/bin/ksh @(#)PD KSH v5.2.13 97/10/27 FreeBSD acp.qiv.com 2.2.7-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE #0: Sat Oct 17 13:26:42 \ CDT 1998 root@acp.qiv.com:/usr2/src/sys/compile/ACP i386 On a 3.0-BETA system from 10/17, sh = 321104 and ksh = 297440. Not as great a difference, but still a gain. >From a size perspective, pdksh may be a benefit. I normally develop scripts for AIX on my FreeBSD box, and so far, have had more trouble between 3.2.5/4.2.1 versions of AIX than between FBSD and AIX. -- Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message