On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:53:33PM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Justin Pryzby said: > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:13:42PM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > This one time, at band camp, Jörg Sommer said: > > > > > > > > Init scripts should not use Bash, they should be Posix Shell scripts! > > > > > > Not strictly true. A script written for use with #!/bin/sh should use > > > the POSIX superset allowed by policy. A script aimed at bsah should > > By "superset" of posix I guess you mean posix + echo -n. > > IIRC policy also allows [ "$this" -a "$that" ] and [ "$this" -o "$that" ] > although I might be confused in thinking those aren't POSIX. -a and -o are XSI which AIUI is an (very common) extension of posix (see standards.7). dash allows them but posh does not.
> > > just declare it's interpreter as #!/bin/bash. Generally, you don't need > > > to do that, but you are allowed to. > > Do you mean because bash is the default sh? > > No, I mean that bash specific features are not generally necessary in Ah, ok; I didn't think that could be right :) Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]