Andres Perera <andres.p <at> zoho.com> writes: > "mandated by posix" and reality usually aren't in sync, as i'm sure you know by
In this case, closely enough. > now since you pointed out solaris It’s just /bin/sh on long outdated versions (newer ones, both from Horracle and not, have AT&T ksh93 there instead). No need to use it, anyway. sh scripts can usually depend on a POSIX shell (and it’s sensible to do so). Some operating environments have guaranteed that (MirBSD even guarantees mksh but Debian Policy §10.4 explicitly states POSIX plus a few extensions). And AFAIK all FreeBSD® shells have it. bye, //mirabilos -- “It is inappropriate to require that a time represented as seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch.” -- IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (POSIX) Section B.2.2.2 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"