On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 02:16:39PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > And while dash is also optional, all *correctly* written /bin/sh > > scripts should work with dash too. > > That's incorrect. A correctly written /bin/sh script is allowed to > use Debian programs (including, say, test) and expect to get the > Debian versions. Please read the thread on the policy list from quite > a while ago.
(Sorry for an extremely late reply, found this sorted into the wrong mailbox): test is in /usr/bin/ (together with [), thus at the very least init-scripts cannot rely on behaviour provided by /usr/bin/test, but make do with what /bin/sh provides, which limits you to what POSIX-test (e.g. dash) provides. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]