Nasty bug in release 4 Bourne shell

Chet Ramey chet at thor
Wed Jan 2 11:02:48 AEST 1991


>>| 
>>| I tried it on HP-UX 7.0 from HP and it workd as expected.  The line "this
>>| is file1" is in a file called file1.  And "this is file2" was in file2.

HP's /bin/sh is still based on the s5r2 /bin/sh.  HP-UX 8.0 is rumored
to have both a /bin/sh based on the s5r3 sh and ksh-88.

>>  What is the relationship between HP-UX 7.0 and V.4?
>None that I know of, HP-UX is a V.2-V.3 base with lots of BSD thrown in.  

HP-UX is based on 4.2 BSD at the kernel level.  Most of the user code is
from V.2-V.3.  Libraries, too.

Chet
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