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From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
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Subject: Re: Is fixing /bin/sh worthwhile?
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Date: 25 Feb 93 14:04:07 GMT
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In <1993Feb24.175756.7398@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:

>In article <CONKLIN.93Feb23174603@talisman.kaleida.com> conklin@kaleida.com writes:
>>There are a number of bugs in ash (/bin/sh) that prevent proper
>>operation of shell scripts.  I run into them frequently in Configure
>>scripts, c-news, etc.
>>
>>I know many people have goto around these sort of problems by copying
>>bash to /bin/sh.  But I'm attempting to fix the bugs.  I fixed a
>>parsing bug last weekend, and I'm working on a quoting bug now.
>>
>>Fixing all the bugs in ash may be a significant task.  I really don't
>>want to invest the time to do so if it is going to be "officially"
>>replaced by bash, zsh, pd-ksh, or whatever in a future release.

>As far as I'm concerned, I would *prefer* a working ash over a bash,
>zsh, pd-ksh, or anything simply because of size.  Bash is a monster
>compared with ash.  For distributing boot floppies, and just
>speed issues, ash is a much better solution.

YES!!  I'd like to see a fixed /bin/sh as soon as possible!!!

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