On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 11:40:02PM +0200, Sven Mueller wrote:
> Gerrit Pape wrote on 04/07/2006 16:14:
> > Hi, the prerm fails with /bin/sh -> dash.  This patch fixes it, but I
> > would suggest to remove the function completly.
> 
> Weird, dash calls itself a POSIX shell, but it doesn't fully support
> POSIX shell syntax. According to POSIX, functions are defined by
> "[function] name () "... Where "function" is optional _for_the_user_, it
> is not an optional shell feature.

No, that's not what posix says.

> I'm very tempted to reassign this to dash.

Well, please don't, it would be wrong.

Regards, Gerrit.


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