On Thursday 26 February 2009 04:27:44 Timothy Redaelli wrote: > On Wednesday 25 February 2009 23:45:41 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > i recall it being incorrect in some cases (it checked for what dash > > supports, not what POSIX supports), but that was a while ago, so maybe my > > experience is dated at this point. otherwise, integrating it sounds sane > > to me, and if we can push fixes back to debian, even better. > > It does not fail, the problem is that some construct works only on some > shells or systems (for example type and kill -HUP warnings). > > Maybe we should add a getopt flag (-q for example) to mask that types of > warnings, or maybe we should (for Gentoo/Alt) adapt files to be (almost) > POSIX compliant (so command -v instead of type, kill -s HUP instead of > kill -HUP, and go on)
i'm totally not following. we were talking about POSIX shell syntax, but now you're talking about utilities as well ? -mike
