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



On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 12:43:19AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"Herbert" == Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes:
> 
>  Herbert> In this case ash is POSIX complaint.  The offending script
>  Herbert> is obviously doing a
> 
>  Herbert> read
> 
>  Herbert> which is not defined by POSIX.
> 
> 	Now it is my pleasure to ask you to check your facts before
>  jumping to conclusions. Have you looked at the standard? If s, how
>  dod the following escape your attention?

I think you misunderstand.  What I was saying is that you can't do a
read without any arguments.

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