On 2007-05-24 10:28:35 -0500, David Champion wrote: > PATH_SEPARATOR does not exist in a Bourne shell. It may be POSIX, but > only a few shells are indeed POSIX; whereas the convention for calling a > shell script does not specify POSIX shells, only /bin/sh.
PATH_SEPARATOR is user code only. Not all systems use ':' as the PATH separator, so a shell script shouldn't assume that ':' is necessarily the PATH separator. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
