From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 29 01:43:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA28997 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 01:43:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA28987 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 01:43:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id BAA26484; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 01:43:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Message-ID: <19981029014317.C26396@nuxi.com> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 01:43:17 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Martin Cracauer Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sh and ~ expansion Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <362B74B6.B9B256B4@gorean.org> <19981028185553.A18168@cons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19981028185553.A18168@cons.org>; from Martin Cracauer on Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 06:55:53PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > pdksh has a number of (IMHO) bugs with respect to signal handling. The > problem here is "what happens when a sh child uses SIGINT and/or So, lets fix them and submit the patches back to the pdksh developers. > If you through away your shell and use a new one, you'll use a > valuable resource: All the PRs collected over the years. Why are old PRs so valuable? > For pdksh, you'll start from scratch So? For 3.0+ we added so many new things that we had to start from scratch on. ELF, new boot loader, Amd, 4.4Lite2 in the kernel, etc... -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message