On Saturday 15 May 2010 21:28, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > On Sat, 15 May 2010, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > > On Saturday 15 May 2010 19:57, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > > > On Sat, 15 May 2010, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > > > > > > They are not bash compat :) > > > > > > Pick any one shell as _the_ reference shell and compare it with all > > > other major shells. The in"compat"ibilities (bash or not bash) will > > > be noticable. > > > > But bash is de-facto standard Linux shell. > > Was. Things change. Several distributions made the choice to replace > bash with dash. I was not involved in that process. I'll have to live > with it. Mind you, I don't necessarily think it's a bad decision.
It's a good decision *if* dash developers will not jump on the opportunity to become assholes, having such a large group of people their hostages now. Seeing an email in dash archives where one developer says "standards only require that redirections support fds 0..9", I am not very optimistic. -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
