"Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Ultimately, /sbin/sh is an unacceptable shell in a modern environment
> for a variety of reasons.
>
> It isn't even POSIX compliant, and the base system shell should be.

POSIX does not deal with path names and thus does not require that
/bin/sh is POSIX compliant.

Backwards compatibility requiers that /bin/sh remains the Bourne Shell.

Jörg

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