On Feb 6, 2008 3:37 PM, Kyle McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > On Feb 6, 2008 3:18 PM, a b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Oh, and as far as the enterprise argument, go talk to some of the > > enterprise sysadmins who post here; they hate that /bin/sh isn't > > anywhere near portable across systems. > > > > > It's also not part of any standard, so how could it really?
That doesn't excuse having a good standard shell for /bin/sh. > If they want to write portable scripts they should use /bin/ksh. It's > that simple. They're not the ones who wrote the scripts from what I gather. They are the ones trying to use software across multiple systems. At least with a POSIX shell for /bin/sh, there is a far better chance of getting scripts written by third parties to work. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
