Importing mksh in base

[Cy Schubert]

In message <20190125193525.GA74966 at fuz.su>, Robert Clausecker writes:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 09:12:58AM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote:
> > Why not ksh93 instead? It is the original and authoritative Korn
> > shell. EPL is compatible with the BSD license. Personally, I've been
> > toying with the idea of importing ksh93 for a while now.
>
> Note that ksh93 comes with a builtin user land from AT&T which should
> behave quite a bit differently from the FreeBSD userland.  So unless we
> want to maintain two slightly different userlands (one of which needs to
> be maintained in conflict with upstream), that has to be torn out, which
> kills one of the performance advantages of ksh93.

Oh really? Explain please.


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