Re: pdksh -> posixness?
On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 03:11:28PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:
> > The man page of pdksh indicates that pdksh is (or can be with
> > a command line flag or environment variable or compile time flag)
> > compatible with the POSIX shell. It further lists the differences
> > between the POSIX shell mode and the normal ksh mode.
>
> In the interest of going small, fast and posix, is it possible that we
> can strip out all the non-posix stuff from pdksh and release it
> specifically as posixsh, which would install itself as /bin/sh and which
> we could then test for posix compliance? It just seems that if we want a
> small shell to be *just* posix /bin/sh we're probably better cutting out
> all the other stuff if only to make it more testable and maintainable.
What are the *BSD people doing? I recall hearing something about
NetBSD messing with ash to make it POSIX. These guys often come up
with pretty good solutions...
Ciao,
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David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw
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