Re: what options do we have was Re: POSIX shell\; bash ash pdksh \& /bin/sh
On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 01:14:29AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"Herbert" == Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes:
>
> Herbert> Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net> wrote:
> >> Now that we have things settling I ask -- what options does Debian have
> >> for a POSIX shell? Ash I am told is not good enough. As I see it that
>
> Herbert> Wrong. ash is just as good (if not better) as pdksh or bash.
>
> Actually, ash is rather more restrive than bash is at least,
> and from what I can tell, even compared to pdksh; and fails on more
> scripts than the other two, so it is less suited as a /bin/sh
> replacement.
Give one POSIX script that fails with ash and works with bash/pdksh.
> We should be decreasing the chances of /bin/sh falling over,
> rather than increasing it.
All scripts using /bin/sh should conform to POSIX. Otherwise it's a bug.
This is our current policy.
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