Happy Holidays!

From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_eskimo.com>
Date: Thu Jan 3 07:07:58 2002

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 12:06:50AM +0100, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On 2001.12.31 21:41 Derek Peschel wrote:
> [porting pdksh-5.2.14 to 2.11BSD on my PDP11/73]
> > Why spend time with pdksh when you can get the real Korn shell
> > sources? :)
> I did not know that the ksh source is now free.
> But would it be easier to port ksh instead of pdksh?

I don't know.

> BTW: I have the object files build and I got them to link with only 6
> overlays. But the executable dumps core... ...will need some time with
> adb...

Random question -- Is there any way to use overlays with shared text
segments (the "sticky bit")? The shell is one of the usual candidates
for having its sticky bit set, but then it would have to keep track of
which users need which overlays... not pleasant.

-- Derek
Received on Thu Jan 03 2002 - 07:07:58 GMT