On Monday 21 July 2008, Robin Getz wrote:
> On Wed 16 Jul 2008 04:54, Paul E. McKenney pondered:
> > So everyone wants LTP to fail one Linux distros that happen to make
> > /bin/sh be a real Bourne shell?  Sounds like this kind of defeats the
> > purpose of testing...
>
> LTP assumes a POSIX compliant shell - not bash.
>
> If there are things in the build system (and I know there are) that assume
> bash, and fail on a different shell, I think the preferred patches are ones
> that make the script require only POSIX compliance - not changing the
> /bin/sh location.
>
> If your shell is not POSIX - then the feeling has been that that is your
> issue, and not everyone else should suffer for it.

except in this case it isnt a POSIX issue.  the shell in use is broken.
-mike

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