Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 14:19:27 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Nguyen <mikenguyen@sprintmail.com> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.net> Subject: Re: Changing sh for compatibility sake Message-ID: <XFMail.981027141927.mikenguyen@sprintmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981027135403.00fe7a3c@207.227.119.2>
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On 27-Oct-98 Jeffrey J. Mountin uttered:
> At 07:31 AM 10/27/98 -0500, Brian Feldman wrote:
>>Let me repeat this once more: not a SINGLE script breaks with pdksh!
>
> Agreed, but on one of lists someone pointed out some other issues with
> pdksh. This was quite a while back on -isp or -security.
>
> Korn is supposed to 100% bourne compatible.
>
> Coming from BSDi to FBSD, I was rather put out that I needed to install it.
> 8-)
First thing I do when I install a new FreeBSD box is install the BSDi ksh
binaries from the AT&T software reuse website as /bin/ksh. A real ksh93, no
less. I haven't had the guts to replace /bin/sh with it yet (though the man
page does have a toggle to display either as sh(1) or ksh(1)).
Mike.
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