Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy
On Wed November 15 2006 17:08, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 16:28 -0700, Bruce Sass wrote:
> > Hmmm, I guess I'm confused by Thomas's statement...
> At that point, I suggested and still suggest that we change Policy to
> restrict /bin/sh to a specific set of shells, rather than just any
> "Posix-compatible shell".
>
> But Policy currently requires correct operation for any
> Posix-compatible shell, not just those shipped in Debian. You might,
> I'm guessing, agree with me that simply giving a list would solve the
> problem, as indeed, it would. That's my preferred solution.
It would, but at the expense of POSIX compliance or, if POSIX is
retained as a goal, pushing the compliance determination step into a
new piece of policy which defines which shells get added to the list...
getting us little.
I don't think Policy is wrong in pushing for POSIX compatible shells,
just poorly worded and perhaps focusing on the shell instead of the
scripts.
- Bruce
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