Glenn Fowler <gsf at research.att.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:36:58 +0100 Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de
> (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
> > "Garrett D'Amore" <garrett_damore at tadpole.com> wrote:
> > > What concerns me, is that the extra time (2 milliseconds was a rough
> > > measurement done in one case) it takes to spawn a shell is going to have
> > > a negative impact on overall system performance if this becomes the
> > > default shell.
> > >
> > > The shell is forked/execed a _lot_. Consider builds of Solaris, where
> > > "make" spends almost all of its time execing the shell.
>
> > I would take this as important argument for keeping the Bourne shell
> > for /bin/sh.
>
> > Instead of replacing /bin/sh and breaking backwards compatibility,
> > it would help more to find a useful way to define how to directly refer to
> > the POSIX shell (and this way e.g. allowing to standardize on
> > #!<interpreter>).
>
> huh
> will /bin/sh also be subject to isaexec?
No, but I got the impression that Garret likes to replace /bin/sh with ksh
and then it would be...
J?rg
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