[TUHS] ksh88 source code?

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Wed Dec 22 03:09:47 AEST 2021


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 at 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 at mcvoy.com
> > <mailto:lm at 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.
>
> --
> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
>                  ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet at case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
>
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