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[EVEN MORE OFFTOPIC] Re: /etc/shells management



On 09-Sep-03, 00:18 (CDT), Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote: 
> See my other posting for a real world example of this particular
> construct which fails on a shell on a commercial system which claims
> to be a POSIX shell.

Just to nitpick, I don't think that Sun claims /bin/sh is a POSIX. At
least in Solaris 8 (I don't have a 9 system handy), it's not even close.
One has to /usr/xpg4/bin/sh to get POSIX.

Steve, who is tired of accomodating Sun lameness, and would really like
them to move into the '90s.

-- 
Steve Greenland
    The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
    system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
    world.       -- seen on the net



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