Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Re: [FIX] devel/codex: recognize OpenBSD ksh

On 10/20/26 11:48 AM, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote: > On Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:01:00 +0200, > David Uhden Collado <daviduhden@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Please find attached a small patch improving shell detection on >> OpenBSD. >> >> It recognizes ksh as a POSIX-compatible shell and prefers the >> base-system /bin/ksh or /bin/sh as the fallback. >> >> This avoids requiring Bash or Zsh for normal command execution. >> > > Right now, if I understand code the right way, it expects bash and falls > back to /bin/sh. I somehow doubt it will run as expected if you don't give it bash for real. > > Why do you need to add ksh here? > >> ++ } else if cfg!(target_os = "openbsd") { >> ++ // Prefer the platform ksh/sh over bash/zsh when the user shell is >> ++ // not a recognized explicit choice. An explicit bash/zsh stays. >> ++ user_default_shell >> ++ .or_else(|| get_shell(ShellType::Sh)) >> ++ .or_else(|| get_shell(ShellType::Bash)) >> ++ .or_else(|| get_shell(ShellType::Zsh)) > > FWIW your explanation hasn't said anything about zsh, but here it is. > > P.S. I've added run time dependency to bash, it will be included into next > update. >

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