Shawn Walker wrote on 08/ 8/07 11:56 AM:
On 08/08/07, Jonathan Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Aug 8, 2007, at 12:18, Alan Coopersmith wrote:Jonathan Edwards wrote:why not just make it an install option: /bin/sh? [ ] Bourne [ ] Korn [ ] Bourne Again [ ] C [ ] Zoidberg of course choosing any church may make you a heretic to othersHow would any scripts that start with #!/bin/sh actually work then?you'd either have to write to the lowest common denominator [hard] /or/ we could just use /bin/sh as a translation layer to figure out which shell *should* be run based on preference or syntax [easier] .. using #!/bin/sh is almost like using "dude" in conversation - it's a little ambiguous and hardly a standardized programming interfaceHear hear! Programmers that depend on /bin/sh being bash should be drawn and quartered
Yeah, but there are laws against things like this these days.
(figuratively speaking of course).
Oh, right :)
Unfortunately, though, there are a lot of Linux script-kiddies out there
who do this all the time, and some consumers of their "work" perceive
Solaris as "old and decrepit" because it doesn't support this "new
style" syntax...
~Iain
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