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-------- Original Message --------
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 09:49:27 -0500
From: Mike Bianchi <mbian...@foveal.com>
To: Steffen Nurpmeso <sdao...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: <OK> Re: [Groff] [PATCH] Use bash for several contrib scripts
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 03:03:48PM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> :
> Imho it is a bug that the generated scripts
> use /bin/sh but are not compatible to a real /bin/sh.
I _strongly_ agree.
There is no man page for sh(1) .
There is no executable for /bin/sh . On Debian ...
ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 1 2012 /bin/sh -> dash*
And the man page for dash(1) says it does not conform to a documented
standard.
The current version of dash is in the process of being changed to
conform with the POSIX 1003.2 and 1003.2a specifications for the shell.
:
Only features designated by POSIX, plus a few Berkeley extensions,
are being incorporated into this shell.
This man page is not intended to be a tutorial or a complete
specification of the shell.
For those reasons, I think #!/bin/sh should be outlawed!
(Yeah, right. That's going to happen.)
Still, within the groff project, could we pick one shell to be the standard?
Or am I trying to inflict order on an unorderly universe?
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Mike Bianchi
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