On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 05:33:44PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Though zsh has an option to emulate sh, it may still not be completely > compatible. Upstream fixes incompatibilities when it is easy. But some > incompatibilities may remain. If sh needs special multibyte (UTF-8) > support for some features in UTF-8 locales, there may be a problem > with zsh, as in sh emulation mode, multibyte support is completely > disabled, and enabling it yields incompatibilities (that's why > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659932 is still > there).
Some years ago, Apple shipped zsh as /bin/sh for Mac OS X. It broke a lot of things at the time, including some of the autotools. I also tried zsh as /bin/sh, but found that debconf didn't work at all. Don't get me wrong, I love zsh, but without some serious work, it isn't at all a viable candidate for /bin/sh. I use mksh-static for /bin/sh. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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