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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