Date: 26 Oct 1998 18:50:31 -0600 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: Edwin Culp <eculp@webwizard.org.mx> Cc: Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.net>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, Studded <Studded@gorean.org>, "Dag-Erling C. Smørgrav" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sh and ~ expansion Message-ID: <86af2iq148.fsf@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: Edwin Culp's message of "Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:36:59 -0600" References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810251035400.22721-100000@zone.syracuse.net> <363353AB.BCE48ADC@webwizard.org.mx>
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> I've been using pdksh for more than three years, first on Linux and > then FreeBSD. I haven't even had a /bin/sh or much less bash in a > passwd file for several years and haven't had a problem. I make > world almost every day, make release about once a week, etc. passwd files are irrelevant. Most scripts have #! lines to force /bin/sh. While we're at it, I probably should try configuring a few GNU utils using pdksh instead of sh; autoconf gets notoriously hairy at times, and would probably be a better stress test than `make world' for shell compatibility. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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