From owner-freebsd-small Fri Jan 12 20:53:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from camus.cybercable.fr (camus.cybercable.fr [212.198.0.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C04F137B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:53:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 33671969 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2001 04:53:00 -0000 Received: from s011.dhcp212-229.cybercable.fr (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.229.11]) (envelope-sender ) by camus.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 13 Jan 2001 04:53:00 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0D4qt424801; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 05:52:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from clefevre@citeweb.net) To: wkt@cs.adfa.edu.au Cc: Phillip Musumeci , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minix and 2.11BSD for small BSD programs/libraries References: <200101112301.f0BN1o207059@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au> X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[<97Zd*>^#%Y5Cxv;%Y[PT-LW3;A:fRrJ8+^k"e7@+30g0YD0*^^3jgyShN7o?a]C la*Zv'5NA,=963bM%J^o]C In-Reply-To: Warren Toomey's message of "Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:01:50 +1100 (EST)" From: Cyrille Lefevre Reply-To: clefevre@poboxes.com Mail-Copies-To: never Date: 13 Jan 2001 05:52:53 +0100 Message-ID: <7l40hx3u.fsf@gits.dyndns.org> Lines: 38 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warren Toomey writes: [snip] > Then Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > sash has very poor shell functionality. I would suggest using Minix sh > > which is very Bourne-like, and is also very small. minix provides 2 shells : ash (from some BSD I suppose ?) and sh. compilation takes less than 1/2 an hour w/ small modifications. respectives size are : -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 89316 Jan 13 05:31 ash/sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 33816 Jan 13 05:36 sh/sh > > BTW. if someone has the time and inclination to make a couple of ports for > > useful small Minix programs, I can provide the patches to make them run > > under FreeBSD. well. I'm working on AT&T Korn Shell (ast-{ksh,base,open}) right now, but I'll do it this w.e. if you have time to wait :)) > I just like to agree with Andrzej that some of the applications and > libraries in Minix would be suitable for producing a small FreeBSD. do you mean replacing the FreeBSD libc by the Minix one, or something like that ? [snip] > I just checked, but the Bourne shell in the 2.11BSD code tree is the _real_ > one written by Steve Bourne. hue! if this is the one as I remember, the code is really horrible to read :( the syntax is pascal like (w/ macros), I've just checked it out to verify if it was I think. and yes, it is :)) it sucks and would not be simple to compile. Cyrille. -- home: mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net work: mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre@edf.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message