Re: POSIX shell; bash ash pdksh & /bin/sh

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Subject: Re: POSIX shell; bash ash pdksh & /bin/sh
From: Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>
Date: 03 Aug 1998 23:00:24 -0700
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In-reply-to: Manoj Srivastava's message of "04 Aug 1998 00:03:01 -0500"
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980803175629.614A-100000@cantor.unex.es> <[🔎] 87n29lapkz.fsf@tiamat.datasync.com> <[🔎] 19980803220421.H26000@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> <[🔎] 87ogu18hko.fsf@tiamat.datasync.com>

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> writes:

> Is this effort justified? 

No.  The small gains to be had by making bash non-essential are
dwarfed by the difficulty of doing so.  Surely we can expand our
energies more fruitfully.


Guy


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