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Santiago == Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Santiago On 7 Mar 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Anyway, bash is essential, /bin/bash shall always be there, using
/bin/bash shall never cause any problems,
Santiago That argument is also not convincing at all.
Sorry. It
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
/bin/sh, and /bin/sh happens to be an incompatible shell. (ins't rc
a POSIX shell too?). I think that is a potential point of failure, as
No rc is not a POSIX shell, look:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ rc
; alias a=a
parse error
And posix says you must implement aliases.
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Hi,
Herbert == Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Herbert Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Hi, Herbert == Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Herbert cvs-inject and cvs-upgrade seems to work with ash (though I
Herbert didn't test them thoroughly) so they probably should switch
Herbert to #!/bin/sh.
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On 6 Mar 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Herbert Yes but unless you actually require any non-POSIX features,
Herbert you should use /bin/sh (this is specified by the policy).
Herbert And currently I don't see anything like that in your scripts.
Where?
Hi,
Santiago == Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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Santiago Srivastava wrote:
Herbert Yes but unless you actually require any non-POSIX features,
Herbert you should use /bin/sh (this is specified by the policy). And
Herbert
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On 7 Mar 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
using /bin/sh is just waiting for a problem to occur,
Oh, yes, removing the /usr/spool symlink is also waiting for a problem to
occur...
That argument does not convince me at all.
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On 7 Mar 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Anyway, bash is essential, /bin/bash shall always be there,
using /bin/bash shall never cause any problems,
That argument is also not convincing at all.
If you really believe what you are saying, then please
I wrote this bit of policy, and Manoj's interpretation is correct.
It's nice, but not required, for scripts to use /bin/sh. Manoj is
being pretty reasonable here:
The code is not done yet. When I deem it finished, and if it
still does not use bashisms, I shall think about changing it.
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