Re: Non-POSIX shells
- From: ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>
- To: Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>
- Cc: GNOME hackers <gnome-hackers gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Non-POSIX shells
- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 22:29:34 +0100 (CET)
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Sander Vesik wrote:
> Solaris users may well have bash installed, but that doesn't help *unless*
> the script actualy asks for bash and doesn't just pretend that it lives in
> a world where everybody has /bin/sh or /usr/bin/sh being bash. The same
> applies if you do s/bash/ksh/ or similar.
so why does Sun ship a non-fully-compliant shell as /bin/sh by default?
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