Re: mksh import

To: tech-userlevel%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: mksh import
From: David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 05:42:46 +0000

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 10:57:05PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
 > Our existing /bin/sh has the full set of POSIX shell features and thus
 > what you can't do with it, you can't do in a portable shell script anyhow.

That's not quite true any more. Someone got a bunch of random kshisms
put into POSIX, and at least some of them unimplemented and unwanted
misfeatures, like cd -L.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost

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