From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Mar 4 15:21:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from green.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D71F37B72A; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:21:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (67p6o3@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by green.dyndns.org (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f23HB3V99101; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 12:11:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200103031711.f23HB3V99101@green.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , 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 In-Reply-To: Message from "Jacques A. Vidrine" of "Sat, 03 Mar 2001 09:19:58 CST." <20010303091958.A68223@spawn.nectar.com> From: "Brian F. Feldman" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 12:11:03 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jacques A. Vidrine" wrote: > 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. Well, local is a non-standard extension if I recall correctly. I'd expect, though, ksh93 to have aliased it to typedef. As far as signal handlers go, I'll see if I can find out what the problem is there. We shouldn't be writing our scripts to a "standard" of whatever is in our /bin/sh, but instead to what is portable. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message