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Re: [10751] zsh components.

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From: Danek Duvall <duvall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: djh <henman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [10751] zsh components.
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:49:46 -0700
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On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:22:46AM +0900, djh wrote:

> For example on Solaris, bash, has components in /usr and if that
> partition goes down one can't log in again to fix things.  
> 
> So is there enough crictical zsh code in the root partition say /bin to
> run zsh as a standalone shell without accessing dlls or whatever in a
> /usr partition?   

On Solaris, no part of zsh is in /; it's all in /usr (at least with the
bundled zsh).

Note that as of Solaris 9, you can your shell to anything, and it'll fall
back to /sbin/sh if the defined shell can't be executed.  It's not an ideal
shell, but it's something.

Danek

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- zsh components.
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