On Monday 09 May 2011 20:11, Sven Mascheck wrote: > > bash is the de-facto Linux standard shell. I think practicality > > trumps "but it's not a standard feature!!!" zealotry a-la dash. > > Therefore, emulating some bashisms is a good thing. > > I'm curious: have you (e.g. by user feedback) already experienced > effects due to ubuntu and debian having moved to dash as /bin/sh?
Yes. Some bbox build scripts broke because dash echo != bash echo. > > > (how to debug subtle problems then?) > > > > I don't understand. > > for the record: > I had wondered about the (unusual?) case where a user > experiences unexpected behaviour (for him) in a script and > has to find out whether he made an error, misunderstood the > language or found a bug. The reference manual if available > would be the usual start then. Instead of spending time writing a manual, and then maintaining it, I prefer to spend time fixing incompatibilities between bbox shells and bash. IOW: I treat "man bash", and sometimes results of experiments with bash as "the manual". -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
