Re: POSIX shell; bash ash pdksh & /bin/sh
Hi,
>>"Shaleh" == Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net> writes:
Shaleh> Manoj, I think you missed the point of his post originally.
Shaleh> It was not "bash is bad, kill bash". Rather that he and
Shaleh> others prefer to set bin/sh to point to something else. This
Shaleh> apparently broke some scripts for him.
Shaleh> His question was why are we calling /bin/sh yet using
Shaleh> bash-isms. Joey has said that in the policy manual this is
Shaleh> listed as a bug. So if one finds a bash script calling
Shaleh> /bin/sh we should file a bug.
Shaleh> Bash is not going away, understood and agreed. However,
Shaleh> developers need to realize that bash is not the only possible
Shaleh> sh. And that is the point he is trying to make.
If this is indeed the brunt of this thread, I missed it
completely. I do apologize. I fully agree with Shaleh's message; we
should not have bashisms in scripts invi=oked with /bin/sh.
manoj
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