Re: perl wants csh
Bruce Perens writes:
>
> > I think somebody (preferredly either the
> > maintainer of bash or pdksh) should package a minimal version of their
> > shell (without readline, builtins, etc.) to provide a /bin/sh which
> > might be used for scripts.
>
> ASH, at 60k, would be good for this. The only incompatibility I've seen
> so far is that it doesn't handle the "#", "##", "%", and "##" pattern
> matching. Perhaps it should have that added.
>
> However, you are overlooking the fact that the pages of executables are
> shared. If you have one user running "bash", all other copies share the
> same pages, and only create their own copies of data that they alter.
>
> I am curious about why tcsh is 3X the size of csh. Is it not linking with
> the shared readline? I suspect this is a library problem.
tcsh doesn't use readline
Andrew
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