From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Mar 3 7:20: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBE4737B71F; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 07:19:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: by gw.nectar.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 68D2418C98; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 09:19:58 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 09:19:58 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Will Andrews , FreeBSD Architecture , bde@zeta.org.au, obrien@nuxi.com, nate@yogotech.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ar Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/as Makefile.inc0 src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib Makefile Message-ID: <20010303091958.A68223@spawn.nectar.com> References: <200103030604.f23645V91572@green.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103030604.f23645V91572@green.dyndns.org>; from green@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:04:04AM -0500 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:04:04AM -0500, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > As far as making rc compatible with ksh... ksh is a _super_set of the POSIX > shell, not a completely, totally new language. This means in all but the > most esoteric cases, it will act exactly the same (or better, but compatibly > so). I already tried dropping ksh93 into /bin/sh and booting with it. Two issues came up immediately: the `local' command, and some business with signal handlers (can't recall exact details at the moment). I don't think these would be hard to fix, though. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message