"Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2008 1:10 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 7, unfortunately, is not as it requires replacing /bin/sh with /bin/bash
> > and that, I think, it something few would be willing to do.
>
> I don't see why 7 isn't an option, even if it does cause *some* degree
> of break in compatibility.
>
> I think the problems caused by #!/bin/sh *not* being a decent shell
> are greater than what little value there is in keeping it.
It have been discussed many times in the POSIX mailing list and the result was
always that #!/bin/sh is just outside the intentional scope pf POSIX because
#!/bin/sh depends on a PATH name while POSIX _does_ _not_ deal with path names.
Jörg
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