On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 08:51:16AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > 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. I'm not sure that anything other than recent Debian claims /bin/sh is a POSIX shell. That always seemed like a somewhat silly idea to me. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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