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Article #421Re: SVR4 /bin/sh BUG
From: Arnold Robbins
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1991 16:19
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1991 16:19
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In article <1991Jun05.054111.27541@digibd.com> rick@digibd.com (Rick Richardson) writes: |I'm also wondering why anyone was messing around with the shell code in |the first place - I mean, if sh is no longer stable, one might as well bite |the bullet and use ksh for the default root shell. Amen. There's no reason to ship *three* stupid shells. ksh should have been installed as /bin/sh and that's it. |One would hope that the changes made to sh for SVR4 aren't of a major |nature and that the bug can be found simply by diffing the SVR3.2 code |(where it worked) with SVR4. Well, if adding job control to sh isn't major, I don't know what is..... -- Arnold Robbins AudioFAX, Inc. | Threads are the 2000 Powers Ferry Road, Suite 200 / Marietta, GA. 30067 | lack of an idea. INTERNET: arnold@audiofax.com Phone: +1 404 618 4281 | -- Rob Pike UUCP: emory!audfax!arnold Fax-box: +1 404 618 4581 |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!emory!audfax!arnold From: arnold@audiofax.com (Arnold Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: SVR4 /bin/sh BUG Message-ID: <377@audfax.audiofax.com> Date: 5 Jun 91 16:19:20 GMT References: <1991May30.171404.23422@cbnewsl.att.com> <20798@uudell.dell.com> <1991Jun05.054111.27541@digibd.com> Organization: AudioFAX, Inc., Atlanta Georgia Lines: 18