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RE: ksh on cygwin
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:10:44 -0600
- Subject: RE: ksh on cygwin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Karsten Fleischer
>
> It's not a major change.
> SUSv2 doesn't say that you have to use /bin/sh for a shell. It even says
> that $SHELL can name the user's favorite shell.
> I know that you always have trouble with users who copy /bin/bash to
> /bin/sh, it's a monthly issue on the mailing list. My patch would solve this
> in an easy way.
Actually, I can easily see it causing much *more* trouble, because then there'd
be one more way to get things FUBAR. Well actually more like Permutation(2) (or
whatever the notation is, God I'm getting old):
"Why is /bin/sh ash even though I set $SHELL to bash?" "I replaced /bin/sh with
bash but I still get ash when I run a script." Rinse, repeat. I just don't see
how the cost:benefit works out on this one.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer. Patriot.
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