Brian Joerg is referring to the fact that ksh93 and bourne shell have some minor incompatibilities. It is possible to write a script that will work differently in the two shells. Academics have even written some scripts to demonstrate these incompatibilities really exist.
The three users in the universe who actually have scripts that exhibit such problems will likely take a break from fixing their punch-card reader, and after complaining, will end up fixing the handful of scripts that actually have problems running in one shell or the other. Brian > Joerg Schilling wrote: >> Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at Sun.COM> wrote: >> >> >>> o ksh93 is the default *system* shell (bash remains the default >>> user shell) >>> >> What do you understand by "*system* shell"? >> >> J?rg >> >> > It's the shell /usr/sh points to. This satisfies backward compatibility > so you're not likely to have existing Solaris scripts break. Having > /usr/bash be the default shell for interactive logins satisfies most > immigrants from linux. > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org
