On 7/6/07, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Seems to me the best fix is for Red Hat to do it. Red Hat's broken compatibility with earlier releases, and whatever individual users do, it's still going to bite those unprepared.
The best fix is for people writing ksh scripts to stop relying on system dependent behavior to be portable because it isn't.
If RH fixes it, then it's done for everyone forever.
How do you want Red Hat to fix it? By keeping their own version of ksh which masks the buggy scripts? By sticking a link to /bin/echo somewhere else where ksh happens to see it now (although this appears to depend on what one has in the PATH variable)? Red Hat hiding portability problems in other people's code doesn't fix the problem for everyone forever. They will try to run the code somewhere else and it will fail again and be another vendor's problem to fix. Red Hat putting a bandaid on this for Red Hat customers might be welcomed by those customers but the scripts need to be fixed for this to be fixed for everyone forever. John _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
