Hello Felix, Tuesday, January 10, 2006, 12:38:40 AM, you wrote:
FS> One example from our university - a real world problem we have experienced: FS> Think about a university which wants to use /usr/bin/ksh as uniform FS> login shell between various systems like Solaris, Linux, AIX - this FS> has become a horrible pain as the Solaris version of ksh is pretty FS> much incompatible to the korn shell versions of the other Unix OSes FS> (Solaris uses hacked ksh88, all others use ksh93). If you want to FS> support Solaris you have to restrict yourself to a subset of korn FS> shell functionality which is common between versions - which is nearly FS> as painful as working with the old bourne shell.. Then maybe you can compile ksh (93) on Solaris from the same sources your Linux vendor does and replace Sun's version with yours? Probably would be much easier with to deal with this. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspto.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
