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Re:KornShell – Moving forward by alxlaz on Thursday December 07, 2017 @04:11AM (#15868679)
OpenBSD still uses a ksh fork as a default shell. mksh is also widely-available and pretty great -- I use it as my shell on Linux boxes, too.
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Re:KornShell – Moving forward by throwaway2048 on Thursday December 07, 2017 @05:39AM (#15868983)
its not a fork of ksh, its a fork of an open source ksh clone called pdksh that predates AT&T ksh open sourcing, and is frankly kinda crap. OpenBSD has improved it, but compared to real ksh its lacking quite a lot, most painfully sane substrings.
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Re:KornShell – Moving forward by alxlaz on Friday December 15, 2017 @03:53PM (#15935000)
Right. In the spur of the moment I wrote "a fork of ksh" as in "a shell (mostly) conforming to ksh' specs", which is technically incorrect -- the worst kind of incorrect.
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