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> Hi April,
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> thanks for your quick response.
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> What is the reason for the long-term goal?
>
> I understand that goal for companies which have lots of applications and
scripts running and nobody knows if ksh93 is working well in any circumstance.
>
> But when I use SXCE for my Workstation and I don't have such crap - is there
> a
reason to not use ksh93 for user root as default? Are there some
Solaris-internal scripts which still don't work well with ksh93?
The main issues are ones of compatibility for scripts and users who
rely on the old /bin/ksh behavior. We need to investigate and fix,
if necessary, Solaris internal scripts and provide tools for external
users and other consolidations (outside of OS-Net) to fix their
ksh scripts to work with ksh93. Before we replace /usr/xpg4/bin/sh
we will also need to investigate and fix standards-related bugs.
The test cases for standards violations is something I still owe
Glenn & David at AT&T.
>
> I also want to thank you for your and Roland Mainz work in providing a new
> way
in using shell on OpenSolaris. Keep on...
Thanks,
April
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> Otmar
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