On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 07:17:58PM +0000, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 19:58 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:16:44PM +0000, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > Dash has a serious bug which is causing grief. > > > > > > [ strip whining ] > > > > > Alas, dash does change the syntax of the command. > > > > > > [ whine whine whine ] > > > > What is that change please ? Last time I checked dash supported the > > proper POSIX required options, so I'm surprised. Instead of whining, > > actually giving a bug's reference and an example of package that is > > hindert by this issue would've helped. > > Dash does not implement the features of Debian /bin/test. It is not > sufficient to implement only the features of Posix /bin/test. > > The policy requires that I adapt to other Posix shells, not other Posix > implementations of test, ls, and other things. > > Or are you saying that it's ok for dash to override random Debian > commands in incompatible ways?
Well, let's drop bash right away then ! $ bash -c 'type test'; zsh -c 'type test'; posh -c 'type test'; dash -c 'type test' test is a shell builtin test is a shell builtin posh: type: not found test is a shell builtin -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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