Re: Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Shankar Unni wrote:

> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > So, in conversation with Corinna, I think that we're starting to lean
> > towards making /bin/sh == bash sometime soon.
>
> Excellent idea. And it even seems to handle the automatic switch to
> POSIX mode correctly when called "sh.exe".
>
> Talking of which, how good is "pdksh" these days?
>
> Using your "exec-expr-in-a-loop" microbenchmark (without the builtin),
> it seems to be nearly as fast as "ash" (within a few percent), and
> almost 1.5x as fast as bash (I got 20, 23 and 38 seconds for ash, pdksh
> and bash respectively). And for the "builtin" (using $((i+1))) loop,
> it's still nearly 4x as fast as bash (0.06 vs 0.23 seconds, or 0.25 vs
> 1.1 seconds for 10000 iterations).
>
> Is it stable enough (and well-enough maintained) to be considered for
> being "the shell"?

And just to clear up any confusion: pdksh *is* maintained (by me), and
it's been so stable that I hadn't had to do much with it except repackage
for the FHS change.
	Igor
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