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Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy



On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 04:14 -0700, Bruce Sass wro
> 
> AFAICT, "/bin/sh can be a symbolic link to any POSIX compatible shell" 
> does not really convey what Debian wants, it would be better to state 
> that, `only POSIX features should be used in Debian "sh" scripts', 
> followed by a list of exceptions (which would presumably be a subset of 
> those features in common use which exist in all shells allowed to 
> be "sh".)

The problem is that "POSIX feature" is a meaningless term in this
context.

If "test -a" is not a POSIX feature (or any other random test arguments
bandied about here), then so calling "debconf" is also not a POSIX
feature, and for exactly the same reason: either might be overridden by
a builtin.

Thomas

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