Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

[Hendrik Sattler <post@hendrik-sattler.de>]

Am Sonntag 10 Februar 2008 schrieb Ralf Wildenhues:
> BTW, no matter what POSIX says, named signals are not portable to
> pre-POSIX shells, which is why Autoconf and Libtool do not use them.

POSIX may not apply to pre-POSIX shells. So what?

Creating a standard is not always a method to documenting the current way of 
doing things. Thus, implementations before the standard can differ from it.
At one point you have to go on and ignore ancient systems.

HS