Brandorr wrote: > On 9/3/07, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > > Brandorr wrote: > > > On 8/31/07, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: [snip] > > > I thought I read that ksh93 is going into ON... correct? > > > > Already in nv_72 - you can thank Roland for that. > > I do need to thank Roland, for sure. (And David Korn. I've noticed > that he is active on the lists.) > > I made overly aggressive assumptions of intent. I thought ksh93 was > going into O/N, so that it could replace/augment /bin/sh functionality > for system scripts, and root login. (Again, I didn't read this, I just > made an incorrect assumption. I think I need to go read the initial > PSARC proposal.)
Erm, technically ksh93 can be used as /sbin/sh and /usr/bin/ksh. I've explained the details in http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2007-August/002079.html and AFAIK some distributions may already on the way to do that (and read my previous email from today) ... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
