Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <19990618013506.A22404@ba.best.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 01:35:06 -0400 From: Glenn Spell To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: "sed" bug? Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <19990617123626.6913.rocketmail@web113.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from "itz@lbin.com" on Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 09:46AM Organization: the aerie On 17 Jun 1999 at 9:46AM (-0700) itz@lbin.com wrote: > Is ash supposed to be a full implementation os the POSIX shell? Not yet. On some platforms ash is in the process of being changed to conform with the POSIX.2 specification. > If not, you'll always run into scripts that are hash-banged with > #!/bin/sh but contain constructs ash won't understand. I've read that many Linux packages provide scripts hash-banged with "#!/bin/sh" that depend on "bashisms"... as if bash was some sort of standard. That would present problems not only for ash but for any POSIX shell as well. -glenn -- ) Glenn Spell ) _ _____ ) Fayetteville, North Carolina, U. S. A. )_ (__\____o /_/_ | ) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ) >-----._/_/__]> )- blue skies - happy trails - sweet dreams -) `0 | -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com