On 12/10/2014 08:21 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On Dec 10, 2014, at 6:20 PM, Ryan Dortmans <ryandort.cyg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The latest version of mksh no longer handles Windows line endings > > [snip] > >> <mksh491_fix1.patch><mksh491_fix2.patch>— > > mksh is currently up for adoption: > > http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Packages-up-for-adoption-td111353.html > > I briefly considered adopting it, mainly for historical purposes.[1] But, > you seem to have a much stronger itch here. You should adopt it. > > Actually, I think whoever adopts mksh should replace it with the real Korn > shell. The whole pdksh -> mksh code path reflects the historical > unavailability of the true ksh source code, but that changed in 2000.[2] > > > [1] It’s sometimes useful to be able to compare ksh88/93 behavior to Bash and > Zsh.
Actually, I think it is good to have BOTH mksh (BSD derivative) AND ksh93 (Korn shell). It is useful to compare all of the shells, not just a subset of them. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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