Re: Which shell?

Sven Mascheck <cuso.k.mascheck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stephane Chazelas wrote:
>> Thomas Dickey wrote:

>>> The /usr/xpg4/bin/sh utility is identical to /usr/bin/ksh.
>>> See ksh(1).
>>> However, that isn't true (checking on Solaris 8 and 10). Hmm - at least
>>> they're the same size on Solaris 10, but sum says they're not.
>>
>> They were on Solaris 7, though. They probably started to fix
>> some of the POSIX conformance bugs starting from Solaris 8.

> This split came with Solaris 9, AFAIK.

Perhaps. But what I was looking at when I started writing that comment
was this (and then I went to a Solaris 10 box to compare).

SunOS saltmine 5.8 Generic_108528-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60

-r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 209136 Feb 27 2002 /usr/bin/ksh
-r-xr-xr-x 4 root root 95316 Feb 27 2002 /usr/bin/sh
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 201328 Feb 27 2002 /usr/xpg4/bin/sh

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