"I. Szczesniak" wrote: > On 10/31/06, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > > "Garrett D'Amore" <garrett_damore at tadpole.com> wrote: [snip] > > 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>). > > I have to disagree. The sorry state of the shells is the reason why > we're close to drop Solaris support from our products. It is NOT > LONGER ACCEPTABLE that Sun ships a reduced version of /bin/ksh, > driving porting, development and maintenance costs of our products > beyond an acceptable point.
Note that J?rg's comment was about the migration of /usr/bin/sh to ksh93. The ksh93 integration (as /usr/bin/ksh93) is not affected nor is the migration of /usr/bin/ksh to ksh93 affected by this discussion. We're now quickly working on the ksh93 integration - the next step is the (hopefully final) update of our prototype tree to the next ast-ksh version which should be out tonight and then start the code review phase. It would be nice to help with testing the resulting binaries for bugs/regressions instead of worrying about the /usr/bin/sh migrarion... :-) ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
