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Re: ALERT: XFree86 4.1.0-3 maintainer scripts hosed; please wait for 4.1.0-4



On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 02:15:01PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> 
> >...
> > not a criticism of Branden, but if he had set /bin/sh -> /bin/ash its
> > likely this bug would have never made it into the archives.  i have
> > found ash to be an excellent shell for uncovering bugs/sloppiness in
> > my own shell scripts.
> 
> Or if he would use /bin/bash as interpreter for all his scripts noone
> would have had a problem (then he can use as many bashisms as he wants
> to and noone has a problem)...

bzzt wrong.

for $F in ....

is not even a valid bashism.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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