This one time, at band camp, Justin Pryzby said: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:13:42PM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Jörg Sommer said: > > > > > > Init scripts should not use Bash, they should be Posix Shell scripts! > > > > Not strictly true. A script written for use with #!/bin/sh should use > > the POSIX superset allowed by policy. A script aimed at bsah should > By "superset" of posix I guess you mean posix + echo -n. IIRC policy also allows [ "$this" -a "$that" ] and [ "$this" -o "$that" ] although I might be confused in thinking those aren't POSIX. > > just declare it's interpreter as #!/bin/bash. Generally, you don't need > > to do that, but you are allowed to. > Do you mean because bash is the default sh? No, I mean that bash specific features are not generally necessary in writing something as simple as an init script. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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