From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 26 20:32:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA07653 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 20:32:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA07634 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 20:32:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-103.camalott.com [208.229.74.103]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA30554; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 22:32:27 -0600 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id SAA10490; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 18:50:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joelh) To: Edwin Culp Cc: Brian Feldman , Chuck Robey , Studded , "Dag-Erling C. Smørgrav" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sh and ~ expansion References: <363353AB.BCE48ADC@webwizard.org.mx> From: Joel Ray Holveck Date: 26 Oct 1998 18:50:31 -0600 In-Reply-To: Edwin Culp's message of "Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:36:59 -0600" Message-ID: <86af2iq148.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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