On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:07:02PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:04:42AM -0400, James Carlson wrote:
> > And on S9, if you put "#!/bin/ksh" at the top of your rc script, it
> > won't work.  Never has, never will.
> 
> Hmm.  I agree that changing it probably isn't a good idea, but there's a
> subtle difference on S10 as Nico pointed out explicitly: the only way to
> get a binary or non-/bin/sh script to be executed correctly on S10 is to
> call it S99foo.sh, which is just plain weird.  I think that at the very
> least this deserves a NOTE in a (which?) manpage, even if it's just a
> statement that everything is expected to be /bin/sh scripts.

Eh?  No, I didn't say that, although that's a great observation.

I'd pointed out that the semantics of .sh scripts changed incompatibly,
but I see now that the semantics changed more broadly than I'd realized.

Nico
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