Darren J Moffat writes: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Norm Jacobs <Norm.Jacobs at sun.com> wrote: > > > >>> Do you like to copy this mistake? > >>> > >> Given the imperfection of our world, I'm going to side with what I > >> believe a majority of our customers will expect, so yes. > > > > The majority of the Sun customers seem to use blastwave and thus habe a bsh > > since many years. Do you really like to introduce a name clash for many Sun > > customers? > > Please back up that statement on how you know that the majority of Sun > customers use Blastwave. > > I don't believe you can make any such assertion since you do not have > access to the data to back this up.
Even if the majority do use Blastwave (which I'd be inclined to doubt; though it's undoubtedly a large number who do, most Sun customers seem to be commercial outfits that get hives when exposed to binaries downloaded off the big bad Internet), that's not really the issue. The issue would be the number who've bothered to install 'schilyutils' from opencsw.org (blastwave.org doesn't seem to have bsh) and then (of those) who actually used /opt/csw/bin/bsh (the package delivers several distinct things). I'd be downright shocked if that number is anywhere near the number who'll be confused about /usr/bin/bsh because of: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.cmds/doc/aixcmds1/bsh.htm ... and the same thing on HP/UX. /usr/bin/bsh being Bourne shell when /usr/bin/sh is Korn seems to be a semi-well-known pattern. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
