On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:17:27 +0200
Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 23 June 2007 13:09, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > On Saturday 23 of June 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Here's a nickel. Get yourself a real shell.
> >
> > POSIX compilant shell isn't real shell?
>
> In this case it's not good enough. We're not writing POSIX portable software
> here, but Linux software where /bin/sh is /bin/bash. Similar to the Linux
> kernel which is not written in portable ISO C.
Having the scripts work with other shells is very helpful for porting,
cross building and the like. Also on Linux /bin/sh is not
neccessarily /bin/bash.
Alan
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