On 8/7/07, Keith Bierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Aug 7, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Chris Pickett wrote:
>
> > On 8/6/07, Keith Bierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Aug 6, 2007, at 3:36 PM, Mark Phalan wrote:
> >> That way, Solaris.Next could still have ksh88, and usual utilities
> >> and etc. and users who set the right configuration option
> >> (systemwide, per user, whatever, defer to PSARC) would be able to
> >> accept Indiana interoperability nearly, but not quite transparently.
> >
> > I don't understand why you want to keep ksh88 around. Could you
> > explain why you want to keep 20 year old and unmaintained software
> > around? After reading lots of community messages I think the opinion
> > outside Sun is that /bin/ksh and /bin/sh need to be updated ASAP.
> > Otherwise Indiana will not be able to compete with other open source
> > operating system projects such as Linux.
>
> Being able to run existing Solaris scripts is a requirement for the
> standard Solaris distribution. That they depend on a shell that is
> otherwise an orphan isn't really an issue. Write once, run forever.
> It's more than just a motto ;>
I already tried to replace /bin/sh with ksh93 and it worked. Only one
script broke because it relied on a bug in /bin/sh and the problem was
fixed within a week (!!) by the ksh93 team. I tried again with B68/69
and Opensolaris now works with ksh93 as /bin/sh.
Chris
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