Re: ash/echo/POSIX/SUS
Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 10:38:43AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> The way I read it the policy certainly does require the scripts to be
>> POSIX compliant.
> How can policy dictate the posix-compliance of local scripts?
Of course not. But if they use bashisms in a #!/bin/sh script, then they're
on their own. The same thing happens when a local program uses unpublished
functions in libc6 and gets broken when the interface changes.
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