On Feb 5, 2008 4:42 AM, Joerg Schilling
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 4, 2008 11:40 AM, Joerg Schilling
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > 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"
> > > >
> > > > Joerg, pardon, but Roland and many others did all of the work to get
> > > > /sbin/sh to be replaced by ksh93.
> > >
> > > AFAIK, there is no decision to replace /bin/sh by ksh93.
> >
> > I believe there is a plan to do that though, and that it will eventually 
> > happen.
>
> Please join the ksh93 project and read the mail archives.....

I have and do.

> There is a plan to create complatibility to /bin/ksh which is based on ksh88.
>
> /bin/sh is something different, it is not a Korn Shell but a Bourne Shell.

I know that; but the version we have is also very limited.

I know Roland believes that ksh93 can replace /sbin/sh.

I believe it can be done too.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben
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