On Sep 09, Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > One reason to require posh compatibility is that this increases the > chances that other shells can be added to the list in the future. A shell > can only be added to the list if it implements all the behaviors that are > common to all the shells already in the list. (These are the behaviors > upon which 10.4-compliant /bin/sh-using scripts are, or may be, relying.) > Including posh in the list decreases the number of behaviors that are > common to all shells on the list, thus decreasing the number of behaviors > that an additional shell has to implement in exactly the same way. It's not obvious at all that rejecting useful features like test -a is justified by prospective support for these mythical other shells. -- ciao, | Marco | [7914 inQdDvmJXj/rw]
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