On 28/11/2007, Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net> wrote: > > On Nov 8, 2007 7:08 PM, Al Hopper > > <al at logical-approach.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > > > > > On 08/11/2007, Al Hopper > > <al at logical-approach.com> wrote: > > > >> > > > >> Has anyone looked into what it would take to > > make an indiana > > > >> compatible pkg (ref http://pkg.opensolaris.org) > > for the ksh93 shell? > > > >> Is anyone working on this? > > > > > > > > ksh93 is already integrated into ON; so Indiana > > already has it too. > > > > > > > > Are you talking about getting packages for the > > newest versions going? > > > > > > Yes. I'm interested in exploring how the packaging > > system would work > > > in terms of installing and updating a non-trivial > > application and I > > > thought that ksh93 would be a good starting point. > > > > Don't forget to update /bin/sh to ksh93 if you > > release an update package. > > > > Josh > > Why? /bin/sh doesn't need to be POSIX or anything other than 100.00% > backwards compatible. > All that has to be true for POSIX is that the sh found on the PATH returned > by getconf PATH > is POSIX compliant. AFAIK, POSIX doesn't even require #! support at all, and > if it exists, the > sh man page at http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/sh.html > recommends using a script to edit scripts that need the POSIX shell name in > them at install time. > > Assuming anything else regarding how the POSIX compliant shell may be found, > or expecting that > you ought to be able to, is an error. >
It only makes sense to make ksh93 the replacement for /bin/sh as ksh93 has already been tested to be /sbin/sh I believe. Until someone goes through all of the hard work that Roland already has for ksh93, I don't see the point of using any other shell. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall
