On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 02:23, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 02:19, Laurent Bercot wrote: >> http://www.busybox.net/FAQ.html#standards says: >> "portability to dozens of platforms is only interesting in terms of >> offering a restricted feature set that works everywhere, not growing dozens >> of platform-specific extensions." >> >> Bashisms are arguably Linux-specific extensions to Single Unix, don't >> you think ? ;) > > no, not even close. i dont know why people think "bash == Linux", but > it doesnt. it is actively used on many many more systems than just > Linux, and i guess i need to point out the fact that bash is far older > than Linux.
along these lines, i'm pretty sure the bash maintainer runs OS X as his main desktop / development system. when people report bugs, he often shows how it's working for him under OS X. that's decidedly un-Linux-y. -mike _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
