April Chin wrote:
> > Whoot, Whoot!  Its about time (even if this isn't currently called ksh).
> >
> > One minor comment:
> >
> >     /sbin/ksh93                       32-bit korn shell (2nd copy)
> >     /sbin/pfksh93                     hard link to /sbin/ksh93
> >     /sbin/rksh93                      hard link to /sbin/ksh93
> >
> > Do we need these any more than /sbin/bash, /sbin/zsh, ... ?
> 
> I don't know that I can argue for ksh93 versus any other shell,
> but adding /sbin/ksh93 at least gives us one modern, more feature-rich
> alternative to the bourne shell (/sbin/sh), for use as the root shell,
> in JumpStart scripts, or in single-user mode, when dealing with filesystem
> problems.

And I forgot about the "jumpstart" thing. The lack of a decent shell
during jumpstart runtime is annoying, too.

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Bye,
Roland

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