On Feb 6, 2008 11:08 AM, Joerg Schilling
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "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.

What do path names have to do with the shell command language?

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html

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

I don't agree.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben
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