[OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash bug issue

[Cal Sawyer]

Thanks very much for the reply and the succinct description of what's 
happened to OI development, Udo

Good luck to everyone who's using OI in actual production!  Me and my 
65TB need to leave the building :)

best regards,

- cal sawyer

On 06/10/14 14:30, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
> On 06/10/2014 14:54, Cal Sawyer wrote:
>> ...
>> If the only solutions being offered after nearly 2 weeks are a) use 
>> ksh because bash is somehow inferior (shades of 
>> "csh-is-deterimental") or 2. rebuild bash youself from source, i'd 
>> have to say that imho it's the polar opposite and this appears to be 
>> confirmed in Andreas's post.
>>
> The simple fact is: The /dev maintainer(s?) seem to have silently
> resigned without handing over the keys....
> So no one is left who actually can apply and distribute the
> patch (which shouldn't be that difficult, as it's only one package);
> the /hipster community up to now has served only itself for the
> purpose of porting the complete OI userland to gcc, and now, as
> the pressure is rising, is trying to reorganise to take over /dev
> to actually make stable and useable production releases.
> This will take time, but I'm completely with you that a patch
> for /dev/ should be made available as fast as possible, so the very
> first task is to actually get access to the /dev/ infrastructure
> to get at least something started.