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On Mar 14 22:56, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Krzysztof Ostrowski wrote:
> 
> > What is the purpose of "00ash.sh", and what kind of system calls does it
> > attempt at making? Surely, it must be something very unusual because I've got
> 
> The strange thing about this is that 00ash should be totally superfluous
> on a new system.  And syscalls?  It's a shell script, it's just invoking
> programs, it doesn't really know waht a syscall is.
> [SNAP]

I can simply remove the 00ash.sh script.  From my point of view,
we should define bash as sh in a rather notorious way.  There's
no strong reason to define ksh or zsh as sh.


Corinna

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