21 Dec
2021
21 Dec
'21
6:09 p.m.
Yes, sorry: I edited the posting heavily and I missed that some pronouns
now had the wrong antecedent.
On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 11:47 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey(a)case.edu> wrote:
On 12/21/21 11:42 AM, John Cowan wrote:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 11:22 AM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com
<mailto:lm@mcvoy.com>> wrote:
I get the historical interest, but in today's world, is there any
advantage to ksh over bash? I get that lots of scripts are run
with /bin/sh and it is nice when that is fast, but aren't the cpus
fast enough these days that it sort of doesn't matter?
Ubuntu chose it as the default shell for sysvinit startup scripts in 2006
(from which it spread to BSD) precisely because it was much faster than
bash. It's also smaller: bash is a memory hog.
You're talking about dash, I think.
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