Hi folks,
I've been giving linux a run. I AM impressed with the quality of of linux (good
work linus). However, I did come up with various problems here and there:
These happened will I was tryimg to compile alternative shells.
Ksh compiled without to many problems if you exclude job control.
On running though it was a bit flakey. when typing 'cd -' it output a random
character and linefeed before it works. This is quite cosmetic. Of a more
serious nature is that it can't handle & at the end of command line; it print
%6291404 29998 %%%-2d%c %5d %-20s % %s
-Oh} ${PATH:= blah, blah, blah
and then it dies! This used to work on minix by the way.
In trying to compile zsh, I had all sort of problems figuring out if linux
was SYSV or BSD or a mixture of both + POSIX that is not in either.
I found out that setpgrp is not an implemented system call (even the prototype
was wrong. -O caused unrecognized insn errors (anybody figure out why?)
Also no utmp.h
In other news today, the adduser package has a crypt.o which has no _crypt  and
refers to ufc_* functions not in the library. I'm using the libc.a that came
with newgcc. Is newlibc a more uptodate one?
Any finally for today, some commands, say mv mostly, output a couple of 
linefeeds and then a couple of prompts. is this a kernel or a shell problem?

Thanks for any hints, and keep up the good work,
Zeyd