request: sh

[mcandre]

Many UNIX distributions end up using GNU bash, ksh, toybox, or zsh. Can uutils please provide a memory safe, POSIX compliant sh implementation?

[anoraktrend]

Brush looks like a good idea for that, no clue if Uutils has any plans for their own, though.

[darleybarreto]

You might be interested into posixutils-rs project. No idea how complete it is, though.

[anoraktrend]

It’s on its way. Iglunix is going to be making use of it. I probably will, too.

[anoraktrend]

Based on Iglunix’s analyses of posixutils-rs, which basically looked at the code and got the vibes that some important components were seemingly vibecoded, both Iglunix and myself have changed course on this topic.

[sylvestre]

happy to have move a project under the uutils umbrella or open a new project for people interested in starting an implementation

[anoraktrend]

https://github.com/reubeno/brush is a nice implementation, and links to other nice rust based shells.

[reubeno]

Just saw the reference here (I'm the maintainer of brush) -- I'm definitely happy to collaborate if there's interest. We're already leveraging uutils crates internally for our implementation of the bash printf builtin, as it turns out. (It doesn't fully provide what we need but gets us a good bit of the way there.)

[sylvestre]

@reubeno sounds good. my email is sylvestre@debian.org if you want to chat about it :)