Gee, I was the first to post a comment on /sbin/ksh93. I tried to include a statement to avoid the "my favorite shell is better than your favorite shell". I guess I should have used capital letters of something.
After posting, I went to bed (I'm a few timelines West of almost everybody). When I awoke, I found over 120 messages on this topic (yea, many duplicates, but probably 50+ distinct messages). I tried to discipline myself to read them all before replying to any, but at this point, I feel I must reply. > From: "Martin Schaffstall" <martin.schaffstall at googlemail.com> ... > On 9/21/06, Casper.Dik at sun.com <Casper.Dik at sun.com> wrote: > > 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. > > Is there any argument which has swayed you to accept /usr/bin/ksh93? > Or libshell? Or libast? I seems that there is no compelling reason to > accept ksh93 at all There has been major discussion on this thread about /sbin/ksh93. That's mostly it. I've seen nothing to even remotely assert that the Sun SAC process (or is it now the OpenSolaris ARC process?) is opposed to /usr/bin/ksh93. Remember my first words? "Whoot, whoot!". In case that doesn't translate to you, its a very positive reaction. I know at least three of the PSARC members have often lamented about the lack of a ksh93 shell. Trying to focus the /sbin/my-favorite-shell discussion, the discussion should be if we need/want more than one shell in /sbin. I think we don't. It should be an interesting discussion in some future case, which shell that one shell should be. Note that that discussion isn't this case. I find the assertion to that it should be POSIX conformant to be interesting and worthy of discussion, but lets remember that the P in POSIX stands for Portable, and just how many of these *few* early boot scripts do we expect to be portable. I'm not sure (read that literally) if this isn't a tempest in a teapot. Anyway, I really do look forward to that discussion, but let's have it in the context of a concise proposal (that of a possible future case). - jek3
