Different versions of sh
Chet Ramey
chet at odin.INS.CWRU.Edu
Sat Jan 19 01:31:01 AEST 1991
In article <1440 at tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms at tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:
>From the discription, it sounds like the sh that Sun ships with SunOS-3.5
>and later is much closer to the ATT version than the BSD version.
>Is this a correct interpretation?
Yes. The version of sh shipped in SunOS 3.x (x >= 0, I think -- Guy Harris
will catch me if I'm wrong) is based on the V.2 /bin/sh, with mods from the
BRL version of that shell to fix up it's baroque memory management a bit.
Starting with SunOS 4.0, the Sun sh is derived from the V.3 sh.
Chet
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