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Re: Several reasons why debian should not use bash for /bin/sh



Hi,
>>"Rob" == Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:

 Rob> Well, that's true, but I supposed that ash and bash might be
 Rob> different enough that their intersection (especially since we're
 Rob> mostly trying to get rid of bashisms) would be much closer to
 Rob> POSIX.

	This is not a good way to determine what is and what is not
 POSIX. Reading the standard is. 

 Rob> It seemed like a quick way to get substantial amounts of
 Rob> the work done, and certainly faster than re-writing a shell
 Rob> parser, which is what I thought he was talking about.

	As long as we treat this as a means of quickly leading us to
 potential instaces of non-conformance. this is good. But that should
 not be what we use to determin acceptable constructs.


	manoj
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