Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net> [2002-11-10 19:41:08 -0500]: > This one time, at band camp, Bruce Park said: > > What exactly is a POSIX shell? > It is a shell that complies with the Portable Operating System Interface > - basically, system calls, expected behaviors and that sort of thing. > Makes it easier for programmers to write cross-platform programs. > > Grossly oversimplified, but google could give you quite a bit more, if > you're interested in looking around. Yes. You might want to poke around here. (v3 is out but I don't know of an online version of it.) This is the standard to which a standard conforming shell must comply. Or it is a bug and you can chastise them publicly for it. :-0 http://www.unix-systems.org/single_unix_specification_v2/xcu/sh.html Bob
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