>UNIX admin <[email protected]>
>writes:
>
>> And let's not forget bash: a broken "we know better" replacement for
>> Korn and Bourne shells.
>
>Don't mean to keep pounding here but you didn't really give a specific
>example of this brokenness. I'm not sharp enough to just `get' what
>you are driving at.
The most broken part of bash is its signal handling:
cd /net/somehost/file/dir ; rm -rf *
"somehost" hangs; now you type a ^C to interrupt the "cd".
What happens?
bash-3.2$ sleep 10; echo foo
^C
foo
bash-3.2$
Any other shell:
$ sleep 10; echo foo
^C$
Casper
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