UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So much of this reminds me of all the BSD-SVR4 > > religion of 20 years ago. > > SunOS changed then to build something better, and > > my view is that's to > > fair extent similar to what we're doing with > > Indiana. > > Back then, Sun didn't "change". What was done is that Sun synced up with > AT&T's code. Again. After all, AT&T's System V release 3 was the > authoritative source of UNIX. So much so, that all the important BSD / Bill > Joy's changes made it into SVR4, and not the other way around.
When Indiana makes /sbin/sh /usr/bin/ksh93, this breaks compatibility. A compatible change that allows people to still have file name completion and a cursor editable history with /bin/sh is what I published with Schillix-0.6.1. If someone at Sun is interested to take the current code, he is welcome! I am currently working on fixing bugs in "sh" and making it portable enough to allow it to be included in the "schily consolidation" ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/ But the intermediate source is of course available to interested people. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
