Hi Thorsten,
On 5 April 2013 15:53, Thorsten Glaser <tg_AT_mirbsd.de> wrote:
> I’ve read you want to use OpenBSD’s ksh for sta.li.
> Why don’t you use mksh instead, which is massively
> more actively supported, less buggy and well-ported?
> It already supports eglibc, µClibc, dietlibc, klibc,
> bionic, musl, and others…
>
> https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm
>
> It’s the default shell (/system/bin/sh) in Android, even.
>
> With klibc, you get it down to roughly 130K depending
> on options (there’s -DMKSH_SMALL to get it down even
> more, and klibc is missing {g,s}etrlimit() so the ulimit
> builtin does nothing, though). And that’s *with* all the
> functionality OpenBSD’s ksh doesn’t have.
Can you elaborate on this functionality a bit that mksh provides, but
pdksh doesn't?
Thanks,
Anselm
Received on Sat Apr 27 2013 - 21:04:07 CEST