From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, pnr@planet.nl, chet.ramey@case.edu
Subject: [TUHS] Re: A few comments on porting the Bourne shell
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2023 03:44:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202301011044.301Aib7T009476@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <464819f0-d2f6-2a60-6481-a194f4428b4d@case.edu>
Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> On 12/30/22 1:25 PM, Paul Ruizendaal wrote:
> >
> > London and Reiser report about porting the shell that “it required by
> > far the largest conversion effort of any supposedly portable program,
> > for the simple reason that it is not portable.” By the time of SysIII
> > this is greatly improved, but also in porting the SysIII user land it
> > was the most complex of the set so far.
>
> Have you read
>
> http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/sh.tour.pdf
>
> and looked at http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/v7sh.tar ?
>
> In the limited literature on Bourne Shell porting, this is authoritative.
>
> Arnold Robbins built on that work and ported the v8-v10 shells to modern
> Linux versions. (I am sorry, I do not have a link right now.)
Sorry to say, it wasn't me. Geoff Collyer made the v9 sh portable
and it's available from his web site.
I did do stuff with the shell back in the 80s:
- I back-ported Ron Natalie's job control into the 4.2 BSD sh,
along with a history mechanism I wrote from scratch that was
inspired by csh. I posted the diffs in comp.sources.unix.
- A few very minor features were added to ksh at my suggestion.
ISTR that one was `set -A array-name value ...' but I don't see that
in current ksh93 doc.
- I was a reviewer for both editions of David Korn's book on ksh.
- I contributed to pdksh, although I don't remember what. The pdksh
doc lists my name though.
- In the early 90s I did a little banging on the vi mode in the
readline librar so that bash's vi mode would be closer to what
I'd been used to in ksh.
In the late 80s I got interested in awk and moved almost all my
personal scripting to awk, although I still do shell work at $DAYJOB
or for personal use as needed.
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-01 10:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 121+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-30 18:25 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal
2022-12-30 19:51 ` [TUHS] " Chet Ramey
2022-12-30 20:02 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-30 20:31 ` Adam Thornton
2022-12-30 20:49 ` Chet Ramey
2022-12-30 20:42 ` Sven Mascheck
2022-12-30 20:48 ` Jon Steinhart
2022-12-30 20:51 ` Sven Mascheck
2022-12-31 11:40 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-12-31 18:49 ` Jon Steinhart
2022-12-31 19:24 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-03 16:32 ` Chet Ramey
2023-01-01 1:51 ` Ron Natalie
2023-01-02 20:03 ` [TUHS] Command Line Editing in the Terminal Driver (Was: A few comments on porting the Bourne shell) Joseph Holsten
2023-01-02 20:33 ` [TUHS] Re: Command Line Editing in the Terminal Driver Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-11 2:51 ` Chris Hanson
2023-01-11 3:53 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2023-01-02 21:08 ` [TUHS] Re: Command Line Editing in the Terminal Driver (Was: A few comments on porting the Bourne shell) Rob Pike
2023-01-03 16:53 ` Marshall Conover
2023-01-04 9:18 ` Joseph Holsten
2023-01-11 2:56 ` Chris Hanson
2022-12-30 20:47 ` [TUHS] Re: A few comments on porting the Bourne shell Chet Ramey
2022-12-31 0:08 ` Luther Johnson
2022-12-31 3:59 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-31 4:12 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-12-31 4:18 ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-31 4:40 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-31 4:19 ` Marc Donner
2022-12-31 4:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-12-31 4:37 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-02 5:10 ` Mary Ann Horton
2023-01-02 16:25 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-02 16:51 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-02 17:32 ` Adam Thornton
2023-01-02 17:43 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-02 17:48 ` Luther Johnson
2023-01-02 18:00 ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-01-02 18:05 ` Luther Johnson
2023-01-02 18:12 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-02 18:16 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-02 19:50 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-02 20:05 ` Adam Thornton
2023-01-02 19:21 ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-01-02 19:34 ` Rich Salz
2023-01-02 20:12 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-02 20:24 ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-01-02 20:41 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-02 21:00 ` Dan Cross
2023-01-02 21:06 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-02 21:19 ` Dan Cross
2023-01-02 22:54 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-02 23:58 ` Jon Steinhart
2023-01-04 9:00 ` Joseph Holsten
2023-01-02 22:43 ` Steve Nickolas
2023-01-02 21:08 ` Joseph Holsten
2023-01-02 21:15 ` Adam Thornton
2023-01-02 17:55 ` Adam Thornton
2023-01-02 18:11 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-02 18:36 ` Dan Cross
2023-01-02 18:48 ` Dan Cross
2023-01-02 18:18 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-04 3:20 ` John Cowan
2023-01-04 3:31 ` Dan Cross
2023-01-04 4:16 ` Bakul Shah
2023-01-04 16:15 ` Dan Cross
2023-01-04 18:28 ` ron minnich
2023-01-04 19:33 ` Chet Ramey
2023-01-04 15:21 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-01-04 15:54 ` Ron Natalie
2023-01-02 17:55 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-03 17:08 ` Paul Winalski
2023-01-03 19:19 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-03 19:56 ` Luther Johnson
2023-01-03 20:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-01-03 21:47 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-03 21:51 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-31 4:41 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2022-12-30 20:20 ` Sven Mascheck
2022-12-30 20:49 ` Ron Natalie
2022-12-30 20:52 ` Rob Pike
2022-12-30 20:53 ` Jon Steinhart
2023-01-01 10:44 ` arnold [this message]
2023-01-01 11:28 ` arnold
2023-01-03 16:34 ` Chet Ramey
2023-01-03 15:06 ` Chet Ramey
2022-12-30 19:57 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-31 12:55 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-01-01 2:55 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-01 4:38 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-01-01 5:25 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-01 5:35 ` Dan Cross
2023-01-01 5:52 ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-01-01 6:35 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-01 6:35 ` Rob Pike
2023-01-01 6:27 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-01 14:50 ` Ron Natalie
2023-01-01 7:11 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-01-01 7:21 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-01 10:25 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2022-12-31 13:26 Douglas McIlroy
2022-12-31 22:19 ` Rob Pike
2023-01-03 15:08 Douglas McIlroy
2023-01-03 15:57 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-01-03 17:19 ` Jon Steinhart
2023-01-05 13:22 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2023-01-05 21:11 ` Rob Pike
2023-01-03 17:26 ` Dan Cross
2023-01-03 18:07 ` Steve Nickolas
2023-01-03 20:19 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-01-03 23:03 ` ron minnich
2023-01-04 1:37 ` Bakul Shah
2023-01-04 1:58 ` Adam Thornton
2023-01-04 15:19 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-01-04 18:01 ` Bakul Shah
2023-01-04 20:46 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-01-05 0:06 ` John Cowan
2023-01-05 0:41 ` Adam Thornton
2023-01-04 5:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-01-03 18:19 ` Niklas Karlsson
2023-01-04 1:29 ` Adam Thornton
2023-01-05 1:51 ` Alejandro Colomar
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