"Bruno Jargot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Every reasonable Unix platform (except S(ch)illyX maybe) has started
> to move it's implementation of /bin/sh towards the POSIX standard. How
> long can Opensolaris ignore this?
1) What is reasonable?
2) If you believe /bin/sh is affected by the POSIX standard, you would
need to re-read the POSIX standard.
3) Can OpenSolaris ignore it's most important users just for the hope
to get new incorrect educated new users?
4) The Bourne shell is available as /bin/sh since UNIX version 6, this
is more than 30 years. You are only free to replace it if the new
program is compatible.
5) ksh is not compatible to /bin/sh as it is based on a completely
different concept in the parser and interpreter.
Solaris still exists because it still has an own identity. If you give this
up in favor of Linux, people will just use Linux and you are lost.
Jörg
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