oksh

Portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh). (by ibara)

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oksh reviews and mentions

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  • Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2024
  • Faster Shell Startup with Shell Switching
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jan 2024
    David Korn's ksh93 was passed on to a new set of developers, who attempted to release a new version; AT&T rolled back these changes due to performance problems which raised questions of support status. It does appear that ksh93 development has resumed, and a new version was released late last year.

    https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/releases

    The independent pdksh spawned mksh, which is the default shell used in Android (as it has a BSD license); mksh appears to be very much active.

    http://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm [https site has cert problems]

    OpenBSD also forked oksh from pdksh. This is certainly well-maintained.

    https://github.com/ibara/oksh

  • CVE-2022-45063: Xterm
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Nov 2022
    I don't know if this is helpful or just annoying unsolicited "advice"

    Anyway, for those of us who like openbsd ksh(all two of us) which is derived from pdksh. there is the project oksh.

    https://github.com/ibara/oksh

  • What is a good alternative to Zsh?
    4 projects | /r/suckless | 10 Jul 2022
    I like oksh: https://github.com/ibara/oksh
  • OpenBSD 7.0 Released
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Oct 2021
    ...and that ksh descended from pdksh, and is distributed as the oksh portable project here:

    https://github.com/ibara/oksh

    The MirBSD Korn Shell also descended from pdksh, and it can be found here:

    http://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm

    I don't know about the feature differences and code quality between these two; they both implement most of ksh88, and a small amount of ksh93.

    I prefer mksh when I need something more than a POSIX shell.

  • Which ksh is used in openbsd?
    3 projects | /r/openbsd | 19 Mar 2021
    Brian Callahan publishes a portable version here: https://github.com/ibara/oksh
  • What goes into porting a program/library?
    1 project | /r/openbsd | 16 Feb 2021
    Porting from OpenBSD, look for the portable versions and their compat layer. https://github.com/ibara/oksh/blob/master/portable.h
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