Re: [PATCH] latest ash has broken 'echo' command
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 04:20:25PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
> Herbert Xu wrote:
> >
> > Of course I'm going back the scripts, AFAIK nobody actually writes ash
> > scripts. So the only significant use of ash on Debian is as /bin/sh.
>
> Do you mean here that nobody writes /bin/sh scripts?
I mean nobody writes scripts with #!/bin/ash at the top.
> > we have a policy that requires #!/bin/sh scripts to be POSIX compliant so
> > that this can happen. Problem is that we've got too many scripts which
> > just aren't compliant
>
> But the fact that scripts aren't compliant does not mean that the shell
> should break them even more,
Well the fact is that if ash has to support features that are not required
by POSIX (but are compatible with it), just where do you draw the line? Many
bashisms belong to this category. Pretty soon ash will become bash.
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