On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 08:31:55AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > zsh has also historically been fairly buggy in corner cases as /bin/sh and > requires explicit commands to make it Bourne-compatible. Autoconf has had > to add a bunch of workarounds for zsh as sh that I'm sure most of our > shell scripts don't have.
Actually, if it's invoked as /bin/sh, it is supposed to be Bourne-compatible. That's my experience with the current version: lakeview ok % emulate; /bin/sh -c emulate zsh sh I don't know what other versions do. I'm working on finding bugs with zsh as /bin/sh; see #510358. If anyone knows about a good /bin/sh (POSIX, XSI, or Debian) testsuite, please let me know off-list. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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