Re: Non-POSIX shells

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam holoweb net>]

On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 23:12, Drazen Kacar wrote:
> ERDI Gergo wrote:
>> so why does Sun ship a non-fully-compliant shell as /bin/sh by default?
> 
> Because it's older that POSIX [...] So a change could break some already
> existing shell scripts, which is a big no-no in Sun's backwards
> compatibility book.

It's a no-no for *anyone* serious abouts backwards compatibility -- that is
what backwards compatibility means, that you don't break things.

Liam [Ankh on irc]