Sunil wrote:
The operating system on your thousands of Linux boxes have never
had to worry about satisfying the needs of millions of customers
while retaining backwards compatibility. It is a certainty that if
SUN decided to change the default shell that at least some of their
customers (if not many) would experience a wide variety of issues
with shell scripts and other tools that they use on a daily basis.
can you please list one such incompatibility?
The one I suspect is most likely to cause problems is the way control
structures deal with redirection and/or pipelines. See
http://home.comcast.net/~j.p.h/cus-faq-2.html#33
It looks like bash does what the Bourne shell does there if it's invoked
with #!/bin/sh. I don't know about the various flavors of ksh though.
I've never had a problem with that, but maybe I'm just lucky. I don't
believe that this is a serious issue personally, as it can be dealt with
by coding in a portable manner.
Joe
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