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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: /bin/sh (was: TCP latency) Date: 10 Jul 1996 13:33:49 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD Box Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4s0bft$19s@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <31E16DB5.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4rtvpf$7e5@fido.asd.sgi.com> <4run3s$3ou@galaxy.ucr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:44673 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3985 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23220 In article <4run3s$3ou@galaxy.ucr.edu>, Michael Griffith <grif@hill.uucp> wrote: >In article <4rtvpf$7e5@fido.asd.sgi.com>, >Larry McVoy <lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com> wrote: >>I'm also interested in John's comment about the smaller, simpler shell >>that FreeBSD uses (I assume it is /bin/sh, right?). If FreeBSD has a >>simple shell that doesn't break any common scripts (like rc.d scripts, >>that would be a bummer), I'd vote for using that in Linux. I hate using >>bash to start processes, it's bloated. > >I wonder if it is 'ash'? Yes. Although I understand that quite a few Linux scripts depend on /bin/sh having BASH's extra features... -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/