"Josh Hurst" <joshhurst at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/21/06, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote:
> > Josh Hurst writes:
> > > I have asked for Roland for ksh93 in /sbin over and over again because
> > > /sbin/sh is a calamity. It lacks simple features like POSIX
> > > conformance and even the basic features of shells available in other
> > > operating systems are missing in this shell. While this project
> > > currently does not aim at replacing /sbin/sh it would be nice to
> > > provide an alternative.
> >
> > Why is typing /sbin/ksh93 substantially simpler than typing /bin/ksh93
> > to get the same functionality?
> >
> > It's the lack of an important usage case -- one that can't be handled
> > in any reasonable way with /usr/bin/ksh93 -- that makes me ask why
> > this needs to be done right now.
> We don't need /usr/bin/ksh93 either - there is no important usage case.
> We don't need libshell.so.1 either - there is no important usage case.
> We don't need libcmd.so.1 either - there is no important usage case.
> We don't need libdll.so.1 either - there is no important usage case.
> We don't need libast.so.1 either - there is no important usage case.
If you have no useful arguments, please stay quiet.
J?rg
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