On 27 April 2013 21:47, Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.de wrote:
Anselm R Garbe dixit:
Can you elaborate on this functionality a bit that mksh provides, but
pdksh doesn't?
Not easily; the last release of pdksh was in 1999, and mksh is
actively developed; even pointing out every single bugfix,
Hi Thorsten,
On 5 April 2013 15:53, Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.de wrote:
I’ve read you want to use OpenBSD’s ksh for sta.li.
Why don’t you use mksh instead, which is massively
more actively supported, less buggy and well-ported?
It already supports eglibc, µClibc, dietlibc, klibc,
bionic,
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 09:04:07PM +0200, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
[...]
Can you elaborate on this functionality a bit that mksh provides, but
pdksh doesn't?
[...]
The only thing I could think of is that mksh allows compressing
duplicate history entries into one, such that e.g. the following
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 09:18:48PM +0200, Gregor Best wrote:
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 09:04:07PM +0200, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
[...]
Can you elaborate on this functionality a bit that mksh provides, but
pdksh doesn't?
[...]
The only thing I could think of is that mksh allows compressing
Gregor Best dixit:
didn't use mksh that long before switching from Linux to OpenBSD.
Nothing prevents you from replacing /bin/{,k}sh with mksh…
(I’ve done so on an OpenBSD VM at work) or just installing
it alongside and using it.
bye,
//mirabilos
PS: on that signature… Frank is zsh
Anselm R Garbe dixit:
Can you elaborate on this functionality a bit that mksh provides, but
pdksh doesn't?
Not easily; the last release of pdksh was in 1999, and mksh is
actively developed; even pointing out every single bugfix, for
POSuX compliance or genuine, would take several Kibibytes.
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 07:47:34PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
Anselm R Garbe dixit:
Can you elaborate on this functionality a bit that mksh provides, but
pdksh doesn't?
It’s developed with an attitude I’d call “suckless”, without
being part of suckless.org though. (And it’s quality
Edgaras dixit:
Well it fails to compile on PI for me
What OS? What error message?
There was a period where a bug in GCC prevented a configure time
check from working. In mksh R45 (released yesterday), the entire
arithmetics code has been rewritten to not use signed integers,
making that check
On 2013-04-27 21:47, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
Anselm R Garbe dixit:
Can you elaborate on this functionality a bit that mksh provides, but
pdksh doesn't?
Not easily; the last release of pdksh was in 1999, and mksh is
actively developed; even pointing out every single bugfix, for
POSuX
Jens Staal dixit:
Sorry for taking this out of context (and on the wrong list), but I built mksh
(now a relatively old version 40f) for Plan9/APE (using the native cc front
end to the plan9 compilers) in the hope to replace the old pdksh sh command
there.
Yeah, I did that too. With ed, as I
Hi,
I’ve read you want to use OpenBSD’s ksh for sta.li.
Why don’t you use mksh instead, which is massively
more actively supported, less buggy and well-ported?
It already supports eglibc, µClibc, dietlibc, klibc,
bionic, musl, and others…
https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm
It’s the default shell
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