On 26 Mar 2002 cgd@broadcom.com wrote:

: > (Solaris's ksh might have worked for this case, but I tend to recommend
: > /usr/xpg4/bin/sh because it is the officially XPG-compliant Bourne
: > shell....)

: 54 [highland] newlib % uname -a
: SunOS dream-on 5.8 Generic_108528-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10

:     324267 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root           13 Oct 25 08:13 /usr/xpg4/bin/sh -> ../../bin/ksh*

This is something newer in Solaris; these programs weren't, at one time, the
same thing.  (2.5.1?  Maybe 2.4?)

In any case, my instructions in src/tools/compat/README allow either
/usr/xpg4/bin/sh or /bin/ksh.

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