On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Tim Bray wrote: > On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Chris Pickett wrote: > >> I think we have a bigger problem than /bin/ksh: Does Indiana or >> Opensolaris want to address the problem that Opensolaris still uses >> the original bourne shell as /bin/sh? Most modern Unices use either >> bash or ksh as /bin/sh > > This is well known to be an area fraught with religion. Having said > that, my impression is that a large majority of the linux community, > and substantially all of the OS X community, live in bash, which is / > bin/sh. I bet that quite a few of the younger linux & mac geeks > don't even know there are other shells :) Early releases of OS X > had tcsh and that provoked much beating of breasts and gnashing of > teeth until they switched to bash. -Tim
Wait though. Why aren't we just applying the logic of the Nevada GNU project design[1]? So if I understand it correctly, /bin/sh would remain the Bourne Shell and /usr/gnu/bin/sh becomes a symlink to /bin/bash... What's wrong with that? (In other words, the design of the GNU project already elegently takes care of issues like this, so isn't this a moot point?) [1] Further discussed in my previous message. Eric _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
