On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 04:15:58PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Our policy currently requires #!/bin/sh scripts to be POSIX compliant. If
> you don't like it, then get it changed. But when that is done, it will be no
> longer possible use anything other than bash as /bin/sh.
Tsk. I agreed with you up to here, but that's a false dichotomy.
Even if `/bin/sh will be a POSIX compliant shell; with the exception that
echo will support -n and -e' were made policy, the old ash, and ksh could
equally be /bin/sh, as could a number of /bin/sh's from other platforms.
Cheers,
aj
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