07-08-2007, Vincent Lefevre: [] > Not every system has bash. If this is for compatibility, you can learn > POSIX sh, but e.g. Solaris /bin/sh is not a POSIX sh.
And Windows will have `sh` soon, called "Microsoft Suxe Shell" (C) Novell. > For this reason and because POSIX sh is limited (you can't execute a > command and have a timeout on it), I now write all my portable scripts > in Perl since it is on every system I've met. Yes. Not having select()-like functionality in the most basic tool, like shell is a very bad mis-design of POSIX and prior art of BSD. As bad as whole `make` crap, which is accepted non standard feature of `test ARG1 -nt ARG2` So, do you need that useless `sh` wrapper called `make` after that? Timeouts can be implemented also. Not portably (maybe), but i don't care about hype of POSIX(R)ability. Here's thread to read (features debian kernel team member): <http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/klibc/2007-September/002167.html> == Perl. Perl is XISOP. Whatever, i don't care. -- -o--=O`C #oo'L O <___=E M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
