On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:10:53AM -0400, Alfie Costa wrote: > but why would BSD & Debian bluff about POSIX? > because nobody bothered to update it? not that this would happen very seldom with OSS ...
> Eureka, [...] > That shell has the '##'. Therefore either Debian, BSD and HP are all > wrong about what's POSIX, or else '##' must be POSIX. > that's wrong reasoning. the claim that a shell is posix-compliant does not imply that it does not contain non-posix extensions. > So it seems that most 'mc' platforms (AIX, Linux, HP-UX), use POSIX > shells, except SunOS. > i have doubts about this. every system today has a posix shell. but not necessarily /bin/sh. the reasoning is to keep scripts from the stone age (that rely on behaviour that contradicts posix) working. greetings -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel