On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 05:08:04AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> open() succeeds, though read() fails later, when a pathname
> passed as argv[0] on the command line points to a directory,
> which somehow results in dash thinking everything is okay:
> 
>  $ sh dir/
>  $ echo $?
>  0
> 
> But POSIX makes it clear enough that in "sh command_file",
> command_file is supposed to be a file, not a directory.  So
> diagnose this with an error message and exit with status 2.
> 
> Reported-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aa...@cante.net>
> Fixes: http://bugs.debian.org/548687
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>

Is this required by POSIX? If not this is simply making dash
bigger for no good reason.

Thanks,
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