Re: AT&T Korn Shell

["Josh Hurst" <joshhurst@gmail.com>]

On 2/20/06, Andrew Porter <andy@defsdoor.org> wrote:
>  On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 14:19 +0100, Josh Hurst wrote:
>
>
>  Does the Debian ksh93 package include libast and libshell?
>
>
>  No -
>
>  dpkg -L ksh
>  /.
>  /bin
>  /bin/ksh93
>  /usr
>  /usr/bin
>  /usr/bin/shcomp
>  /usr/share
>  /usr/share/man
>  /usr/share/man/man1
>  /usr/share/man/man1/ksh93.1.gz
>  /usr/share/man/man1/shcomp.1.gz
>  /usr/share/man/fr
>  /usr/share/man/fr/man1
>  /usr/share/man/fr/man1/shcomp.1.gz
>  /usr/share/ksh
>  /usr/share/ksh/functions
>  /usr/share/ksh/functions/dirs
>  /usr/share/ksh/functions/popd
>  /usr/share/ksh/functions/pushd
>  /usr/share/doc
>  /usr/share/doc/ksh
>  /usr/share/doc/ksh/OBSOLETE
>  /usr/share/doc/ksh/example.kshrc
>  /usr/share/doc/ksh/copyright
>  /usr/share/doc/ksh/COMPATIBILITY.gz
>  /usr/share/doc/ksh/RELEASE.gz
>  /usr/share/doc/ksh/RELEASE88.gz
>  /usr/share/doc/ksh/RELEASE93.gz
>  /usr/share/doc/ksh/PROMO.mm.gz
>  /usr/share/doc/ksh/changelog.Debian.gz
>  /usr/share/menu
>  /usr/share/menu/ksh
Seems these libraries are statically linked. It may be worth to think
about providing shared library versions since there are many
applications which can use libshell and libast. For example AT&T
claims a 30%+ performance improvement for perl applications if sfio
(provided by libast) is used instead of stdio.
--
Josh