On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 12:50:56AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 02:31:42PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > What about escape codes, do we require them or do we forbid them? > > I think it would be a bad idea to make any recommendations on > escape codes in debian policy: > > (1) We don't use them. > (2) In almost all examples we don't care if they're supported or not. > (3) POSIX already says enough about escape codes. > > As it happens, neither bash nor ash support them, while zsh does. > Both variants are reasonable.
When I said escape codes, I really meant the scripts that currently use them with/without -e. So with your current modification to the policy, escape codes are no longer allowed in any #!/bin/sh script. Remember the kernel source uses -e in just as many places as it uses -n. Currently bash and ash supports -e in violation to POSIX. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
