SVR4 /bin/sh BUG

[Arnold Robbins]

In article <1991Jun05.054111.27541 at digibd.com> rick at 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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