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Diffstat (limited to 'shell')
| -rw-r--r-- | shell/Config.in | 17 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/shell/Config.in b/shell/Config.in index 6cd3e04e4..016af719a 100644 --- a/shell/Config.in +++ b/shell/Config.in @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ choice default CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_IS_NONE help Choose a shell. The ash shell is the most bash compatible - and full featured. + and full featured one. config CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_IS_ASH select CONFIG_ASH @@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ config CONFIG_ASH help Tha 'ash' shell adds about 60k in the default configuration and is the most complete and most pedantically correct shell included with - busybox. This shell is actually a derivitive the Debian 'dash' shell - (by Herbert Xu), which was created by porting the 'ash' shell + busybox. This shell is actually a derivative of the Debian 'dash' + shell (by Herbert Xu), which was created by porting the 'ash' shell (written by Kenneth Almquist) from NetBSD. comment "Ash Shell Options" @@ -101,9 +101,10 @@ config CONFIG_HUSH bool "hush" default n help - hush is very small shell (just 18k) and it has fairly complete Bourne - shell grammer. It even handles all the normal flow control options - such as if/then/elif/else/fi, for/in/do/done, while loops, etc. + hush is a very small shell (just 18k) and it has fairly complete + Bourne shell grammar. It even handles all the normal flow control + options such as if/then/elif/else/fi, for/in/do/done, while loops, + etc. It does not handle case/esac, select, function, here documents ( << word ), arithmetic expansion, aliases, brace expansion, tilde @@ -117,7 +118,7 @@ config CONFIG_LASH lash is the very smallest shell (adds just 10k) and it is quite usable as a command prompt, but it is not suitable for any but the most trivial scripting (such as an initrd that calls insmod a few - times) since it does not understand any Bourne shell grammer. It + times) since it does not understand any Bourne shell grammar. It does handle pipes, redirects, and job control though. Adding in command editing makes it a very nice lightweight command prompt. @@ -129,7 +130,7 @@ config CONFIG_MSH The minix shell (adds just 30k) is quite complete and handles things like for/do/done, case/esac and all the things you expect a Bourne shell to do. It is not always pedantically correct about Bourne - shell grammer (try running the shell testscript "tests/sh.testcases" + shell grammar (try running the shell testscript "tests/sh.testcases" on it and compare vs bash) but for most things it works quite well. It also uses only vfork, so it can be used on uClinux systems. |