svn commit: r40297 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq
Eitan Adler
eadler at FreeBSD.org
Fri Dec 7 13:00:59 UTC 2012
Author: eadler
Date: Fri Dec 7 13:00:58 2012
New Revision: 40297
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40297
Log:
Rewrap minimal-sh
Translators may ignore
PR: 174029
Submitted by: Derek Wood <ddwood at highdensity.org>
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Fri Dec 7 13:00:56 2012 (r40296)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Fri Dec 7 13:00:58 2012 (r40297)
@@ -3980,33 +3980,34 @@ kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC -> i82
<qandaentry>
<question id="minimal-sh">
- <para>Why is <command>/bin/sh</command> so minimal? Why does
- &os; not use <command>bash</command> or another
+ <para>Why is <command>/bin/sh</command> so minimal? Why
+ does &os; not use <command>bash</command> or another
shell?</para>
</question>
<answer>
- <para>Many people need to write
- shell scripts which will be portable across many systems.
- That is why &posix; specifies the shell and utility commands
- in great detail. Most scripts are written in Bourne shell (&man.sh.1;),
- and because several important programming interfaces
- (&man.make.1;, &man.system.3;, &man.popen.3;, and analogues
- in higher-level scripting languages like Perl and Tcl) are
- specified to use the Bourne shell to interpret commands.
- Because the Bourne shell is so often and widely used, it is
- important for it to be quick to start, be deterministic in
- its behavior, and have a small memory footprint.</para>
+ <para>Many people need to write shell scripts which will be
+ portable across many systems. That is why &posix;
+ specifies the shell and utility commands in great detail.
+ Most scripts are written in Bourne shell (&man.sh.1;), and
+ because several important programming interfaces
+ (&man.make.1;, &man.system.3;, &man.popen.3;, and
+ analogues in higher-level scripting languages like Perl
+ and Tcl) are specified to use the Bourne shell to
+ interpret commands. Because the Bourne shell is so often
+ and widely used, it is important for it to be quick to
+ start, be deterministic in its behavior, and have a small
+ memory footprint.</para>
<para>The existing implementation is our best effort at
meeting as many of these requirements simultaneously as we
- can. In order to keep <command>/bin/sh</command> small, we
- have not provided many of the convenience features that
+ can. In order to keep <command>/bin/sh</command> small,
+ we have not provided many of the convenience features that
other shells have. That is why the Ports Collection
includes more featureful shells like
<command>bash</command>, <command>scsh</command>,
- &man.tcsh.1;, and <command>zsh</command>. (You
- can compare for yourself the memory utilization of all these
+ &man.tcsh.1;, and <command>zsh</command>. (You can
+ compare for yourself the memory utilization of all these
shells by looking at the <quote>VSZ</quote> and
<quote>RSS</quote> columns in a <command>ps
<option>-u</option></command> listing.)</para>
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