[rescue] ksh q... the bash

[Dave McGuire]

On September 21, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Friday, September 21, 2001 at 11:24:20 (-0400), linc wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: [rescue] ksh q... the bash
> >
> > Hey now, BASH is a great shell to work with!
> 
> Yeah, if you like using buggy software for one of your most important
> programs.   (When I'm forced to use Linux systems without ash or pdksh
> installed I have to be very careful what I do -- I can't count the
> number of times I've had my login bash core dump and drop me off the
> system in a flash with no warning.)

  Interesting.  I've been using bash exclusively for upwards of ten
years, and it's never so much as burped.

  What platforms/OSs have you had trouble on?  I've run it on Sun3,
SPARC, VAX, pmax, SGI, i386, and Cray Y/MP under SunOS4, Solaris,
IRIX, Ultrix, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, and Unicos.  Never any problems.

  This concerns me because I rather depend on bash for everyday work.
If I'm going to hit instabilities on some other platform at some
point, I'd rather investigate it ahead of time.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD