On Mar 26, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Jeff Savit wrote:

We deliberately don't break compatibility in the
long-term-support version of the OS, as that would be a Bad Thing for
our customers who count on tools to work the way they did even if a
newer and even better (but not strictly compatible) replacement is
available.

Hence Solaris non-POSIX /bin/sh.

Pardon me while I go vomit in this corner here.

Adam

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