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Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)



On Fri, 03 Oct 2014, Russell Stuart wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 00:04 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> > The shell you're describing is posh.  It implements exactly those
> > features, and nothing more.
> 
> You've got me to look at posh.  Thanks for that.
> 
> So we do have a shell that developers can use to test their scripts
> match Debian policy.

"posh" is useful to test if a script restricts itself to POSIX features.

Debian policy mandates that /bin/sh implement a _superset_ of POSIX, which
is out of scope for "posh".

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