On Aug 01, Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl> wrote: > I would appreciate it if someone would create the "potash" shell, > consisting of posh modified to implement "test -a", "test -o" and > "local". Debian would probably run on that well enough for it to > be used as /bin/sh, and it could become the de facto testbed for > 10.4 compliance. Is there anything else which dash supports but posh does not? And again, please let's focus on the *purpose* of policy. POSIX compatibility is not supposed to be a goal in itself, compatibility with other UN*X /bin/sh or support for a faster shell than bash may be. > Later there was a complaint that eliminating bashisms causes > inconvenient divergence from upstream. But that divergence can be > limited to this short patch per offending script: This also negates the advantages of using a (much) faster shell than bash as /bin/sh. -- ciao, Marco
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