On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Warner Losh wrote:
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agree.
> Or course, we may need to adopt features from bash into our /bin/sh as
> time marches forward.
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i'll disagree on this one. linux (that i've seen) uses a symlink from sh
to bash. if you execute /bin/sh, it's running bash. if you write a script
on linux and it works with /bin/sh it may not work with a "real" bourne
shell. i've seen it in kde, where it seems most of the development is done
on linux. when i saw it, i filed a bug report with a fix (to make the
script compatible with bourne shell).
in that case, the answer is to suggest that kde/linux do the right thing,
not emulate them when they do the wrong thing.
<<snip>>
agree.
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