On 8/8/07, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
-1 I strongly disagree. /bin/sh needs to be replaced. > and /usr/gnu/bin/sh becomes a symlink to > /bin/bash... What's wrong with that? It won't help makefiles, users of system() and popen() and all other users who expect that /bin/sh is a decent shell such as ksh or bash. Josh _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
