Re: please fix your RC bugs

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 31-Jul-05, 19:53 (CDT), Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de> wrote: 
> Well, currently Solaris is doing bit advertisemet that they did not (never?)
> break compatibility. 

Which leads to wonderful things like /bin/sh *still* not being POSIX,
or even ksh[1]...compatibility is nice, but it's not the ultimate goal of
computing.

Steve

[1] Useful fragment for cross platform shell scripts:

#!/bin/sh
# Do the Solaris Dance:
if [ ! -d ~root ]  ; then
    exec /usr/xpg4/bin/sh $0 "$@" 
fi


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Steve Greenland
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    system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
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