Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: From: "Karsten Fleischer" To: "'Nicholas Wourms'" , "'Thomas Baker'" Cc: Subject: RE: The Korn Shell [was: Re: What's Up With That (KSH)?] Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 01:40:58 +0200 Organization: Omnium Software Engineering Message-ID: <000901c217ea$c71fc790$ccbccad4@muffin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20020612112823.5383.qmail@web21009.mail.yahoo.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 > Karsten, do you have a status update for us? Sorry for being late (as always). Yes, I've got an update. I've been to NYC a while and met with David Korn several times. There's a new version of the whole AST package out now which includes ksh93n-. Some minor bugs have been fixed since ksh93m+. The first build on Cygwin did not look promising, ksh93 was crashing all the time. I've changed some things then, e.g. use spawnve() instead of fork()/exec() in the same way it's done on UWIN, but there's still something going wrong when I invoke ksh93 with the -c option where the given command is a script. I'm not sure if this is a Cygwin or ksh93 bug, yet. I also changed the builtin commands, so that by default the original GNU versions are being used and the finetuned for ksh93 AT&T commands are availabe on demand. There's yet one command remaining I have to think about: getconf. getconf is documented as a shell builtin for ksh93, but currently it resides in the cmd12.dll not in shell11.dll, because on most UNIX systems getconf is also a separate program. I'd like to get rid of cmd12.dll completely for the Cygwin version of ksh93. It should be in a separate package. I hope to hear from David tomorrow regarding this issue. Karsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/