Importing mksh in base

Simon J. Gerraty sjg at juniper.net
Sat Jan 26 23:30:44 UTC 2019


Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com> wrote:
> Why not ksh93 instead? It is the original and authoritative Korn
> shell. EPL i

Sure but my experience was (back in maybe 2000 or there abouts) it was lame
compared to pdksh ;-) emacs mode as crude, no interactive history
search.


> As to replacing root's shell, replacing tcsh is a large POLA
> violation.  Maybe give users the option at install time instead. 

Yes - netbsd have done that for years, no need to surprise/upset anyone.


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