Eric Schnoebelen wrote:

> 	Good Grief!  I just checked the sizes of the statically
> linked shells, and /bin/sh is _not_ the smallest!  Time to go
> read the sh manpage and see what `features' have been added to
> the NetBSD edition of sh.. (quite a surprise to someone who grew
> up expecting /bin/sh to be pretty much the v7 version..)

Command-line editting comes to mind.  Note that we're using a derivitive
of "ash", not something based on the v7 sh.  On my 1.4P i386:

	wincen:~ 188> ls -l /bin/*sh
	-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  540860 Jan 14 18:14 /bin/bash*
	-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  277728 Nov 14 12:42 /bin/csh*
	-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  320680 Nov 14 12:42 /bin/ksh*
	-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  337852 Nov 14 12:43 /bin/sh*
	-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  451104 Dec  2 01:13 /bin/tcsh*

these are all statically linked (bash I just compiled today, usually I
don't use it).


If you want featureless, use Ultrix:

	MAIL:~ 15691> ls -lL /bin/sh{,5}
	-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     system      36864 Apr  1  1996 /bin/sh*
	-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     system     151552 Oct 18  1995 /bin/sh5*

/bin/sh doesn't have shell functions, etc.  /bin/sh5 is the "system V"
shell.  Ultrix doesn't have static libs either - that's the full shell
:)

Simon.