Re: /bin/sh as an alternative

[Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

>           If bash is invoked with the name sh, it tries to mimic the
>           startup behavior of historical versions of sh  as  closely
>           as  possible,  while  conforming  to the POSIX standard as
>           well.
> 
>    So, if POSIX says that the example above should be
> 
>    $ echo hello {there,world}
>    hello {there,world}
> 
>    then this is a bug in bash, IMHO. Can somebody check bash for other
>    non-POSIX features is has when called as `sh' and file bug reports for
>    them?
> 
> `startup behavior' is not the same as `behavior while bash is
> running.'  `startup behavior' just means what dotfiles get run at bash
> startup time.

It does say "while conforming to the POSIX standard as well".

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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