"Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de> wrote:
Hmmm ... AFAICR ksh93 was huge collection of bugs causing a lot of bugzilla entries (tagged 56 bugs). I can remember the problems the $(cmd) had caused whereas the old `cmd` code had worked flawless. I had spent a lot of time to hunt bugs in the multibyte code as well. One bug was memory allocing code in the signal handling. During maintaining systemd I had no time anymore to hunt further bugs down hence the new maintainer for ksh93/libast. From my point of view I prefere a stable shell with maintainable code more than a exterm fast shell with bugs and interwoven bad documented code.
Such problems did not exist on Solaris and a non-portable ksh93 kills it. The main advantage from ksh93 was is portability as long as David Korn was the maintainer. I don't like the current version of ksh93 even though it fixed a few bugs. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sf.net/projects/schilytools/files/' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org