Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I discovered that Solaris 11's /bin/sh exhibits the following > surprising behavior: > > $ /bin/sh -c 'umask 22; (umask 0); umask' > 0000 > > That would cause test failures in coreutils, because gl_POSIX_SHELL > accepted /bin/sh. The following change is enough to make > gl_POSIX_SHELL reject that shell and instead use /bin/bash, which > is also provided: > > posix-shell.m4: reject Solaris 11's /bin/sh (due to umask) > * m4/posix-shell.m4 (gl_POSIX_SHELL): Reject a shell that > lets a umask modification leak out of a subshell. Otherwise, > Solaris 11's /bin/sh would be accepted and thus cause unwarranted > failures in coreutils test suite.
I've pushed that change.
