cc: mike.kupfer at Sun.COM don.cragun at Sun.COM PSARC-EXT at sac.sfbay.sun.com Subject: Re: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: Korn Shell 93Integration[PSARC-EXT/2006/550 Timeout: 09/27/2006] --------
> The ARC is here to look from a bigger distance at projects and examine > the overall picture. > > And the bigger picture is simply this: all shells in Solaris live in > /usr except for /sbin/sh which is used for the very early bootstrap > process. Ergo, we see no reason to make ksh93 live in /sbin. > > None of the arguments have swayed us so far and James explained that > arguments prefixed with "in the future we may" are best dealt with > in future ARC cases when things may be moved around if the need arises. > > If not, then this case would open the doors for "but his ksh93 is in /sbin, > I want my bash/zsh/tcsh there too". > > Casper > > I do beleive that administrators want a better shell in /sbin than the current /sbin/sh. However, only 1 is needed. I think that tcsh is obsolete and should not be considered. The best candidates are bash, ksh, and zsh. If you accept this idea, then the next step is to select one of these. I beleive that the ARC makes a case for making ksh the choice based upon future considerations. David Korn dgk at research.att.com
