Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Heck, I'm entirely happy with Manoj's suggestion to drop the whole damn > thing, and simply say "/bin/sh will be bash."
Well, I'm not, and neither are a lot of other people judging from this discussion. > No. I'm saying that the existing noticed problem (test) is *better* > solved by something other than a pseudo-solution. A good solution might > be to say something like Manoj's solution, or *something* that does more > than say "let's pretend that the words 'Posix-compatible' mean > something!" Let's try and solve the problem, rather than push it under > the rug and hope it doesn't come up *yet again*. > Again you say? Well, we pushed it under the bed with echo, and now > we're going to do that with test. How about we actually decide what we > actually want? I think the current Policy solution for echo is reasonable and minimal and I would like to see a similar solution for test and local. I believe that the rate of growth of such rules is reasonable and something that's maintainable in Policy going forward. I believe that trying to implement your approach would result in a mess, and I don't believe it's more useful in practice. I think we're down to irreconcilable differences here, so I'm going to stop discussing this particular aspect of the thread further unless I can think of something new to say. Right now, I'm just repeating myself for the sake of saying that I still don't agree, and that quickly becomes noise. > Right now, we say "we want to make it possible to install any > Posix-compatible shell as /bin/sh". I do see your point here given the current wording, but I think this is a minor wording tweak. The intention is not to say that pathological shells that barely meet the requirements of POSIX are expected to work as /bin/sh. I think I can rephrase this in a way to make that clearer so that at least we can not argue about *that*. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
