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Date:      Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:18:33 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sh(1) broken caching [was: Re: Broken sh(1)?]
Message-ID:  <19991216091832.A74110@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991216154020.A41154@cons.org>; from cracauer@cons.org on Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 03:40:20PM %2B0100
References:  <712.945183175@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <38565DEA.4487DF53@scc.nl> <19991216154020.A41154@cons.org>

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On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 03:40:20PM +0100, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> You can also fool sh into running the *wrong* binary if if you have
> two in showdowed paths:

pdksh does not suffer from either this problem or the problem that
started this thread (and does not coredump).  We've shown in the past
that pdksh is actually smaller (when linked statically) than ash.

I still think we should *seriously* consider switching to pdksh.

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)


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