Re: shells present on an LSB system

[alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)]

> On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > > And then there is the issue of referencing a /bin/sh standard.  If not
> > > POSIX, then a predecessor.  Maybe the XPG3 Shell specifcation, as
> > > suggested by Andrew Josey.
> > > 
> > > I'd like us to specify POSIX.2 in the draft for now.
> > 
> > Definitely - but why call it /bin/sh ?
> 
> Think of it as source compatability with other UNIX systems.

I prefer to think of it as breakage of back compatibility of other LINUX
systems first.