[indiana-discuss] scope

[Tim Bray]

On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Chris Pickett wrote:

> I think we have a bigger problem than /bin/ksh: Does Indiana or
> Opensolaris want to address the problem that Opensolaris still uses
> the original bourne shell as /bin/sh? Most modern Unices use either
> bash or ksh as /bin/sh

This is well known to be an area fraught with religion.  Having said  
that, my impression is that a large majority of the linux community,  
and substantially all of the OS X community, live in bash, which is / 
bin/sh.  I bet that quite a few of the younger linux & mac geeks  
don't even know there are other shells :)   Early releases of OS X  
had tcsh and that provoked much beating of breasts and gnashing of  
teeth until they switched to bash.  -Tim