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From: arnold@audiofax.com (Arnold Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: SVR4 /bin/sh BUG
Message-ID: <377@audfax.audiofax.com>
Date: 5 Jun 91 16:19:20 GMT
References: <1991May30.171404.23422@cbnewsl.att.com> <20798@uudell.dell.com> <1991Jun05.054111.27541@digibd.com>
Organization: AudioFAX, Inc., Atlanta Georgia
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In article <1991Jun05.054111.27541@digibd.com> rick@digibd.com (Rick Richardson) writes:
|I'm also wondering why anyone was messing around with the shell code in
|the first place - I mean, if sh is no longer stable, one might as well bite
|the bullet and use ksh for the default root shell.

Amen.  There's no reason to ship *three* stupid shells.  ksh should have
been installed as /bin/sh and that's it.

|One would hope that the changes made to sh for SVR4 aren't of a major
|nature and that the bug can be found simply by diffing the SVR3.2 code
|(where it worked) with SVR4.

Well, if adding job control to sh isn't  major, I don't know what is.....
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