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Re: shells present on an LSB system



> If we decide that /bin/sh is an XPG3 shell, then we need to decide
> where the POSIX confirming shell will be placed.  The options include:
>
>   /bin/posixsh (or another name, would be ugly if used for more programs)
>   /usr/xpg4/bin/sh (Solaris)
>   /usr/posix/bin/sh
>   /opt/posix/bin/sh
>

I'd favour /usr/posix/bin/sh
since there may be other utilities where there is a clash
with existing behaviour that we deem serious enough to
support two different versions.
regards
Andrew


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