"Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
Please try to understand how POSIX works....
POSIX requires a POSIX compliant shell to be available if ou type "sh"
after you typed: "PATH=`getconf PATH`"
POSIX does _not_ deal with PATH names and thus does not say anything about
/bin/sh.
Jörg
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