Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:35:14PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 21:16 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > Your scripts shouuld really just use whatever POSIX mandates
> > ls has. Just like it should use whatever POSIX mandates test has.
>
> Ok, so this means something like the following would be good for policy:
>
> "When POSIX specifies a command, shell scripts should only use the
> options mandated by POSIX for that command, even if the standard Debian
> versions have more. Specify a complete pathname to the command if you
> need the options the standard Debian version provides. (Exceptions:
> echo -n, and test -a/-e may be used even though not mandated by POSIX.)
>
> "You may use commands not specified by POSIX, provided they are in
> essential packages, or packages that you Depends: on."
This proposal has some merit, as long as we do s/POSIX/SuSv3/.
Also, we probably want to make exceptions for find/xargs (to get -0).
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Regards: David
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