On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 12:05 -0400, Chris Staub wrote: > Then those that do should be considered buggy and must be fixed. > Personally I think that requiring /bin/sh -> bash is pointless, and that > if there are any packages that have /bin/sh while using Bash features > those packages should be corrected...but then I seem to be alone on this...
Not at all alone - I personally think bash should automatically disable all bash-specific features if invoked as 'sh', precisely to avoid such problems. I've been bitten by this kind of thing a few times, learning the hard way that on some platforms (Solaris in particular), sh really is the classic Bourne shell... Simon.
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