On Feb 13, 2008 3:12 PM, Brian Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Brian > > Joerg is referring to the fact that ksh93 and bourne shell have some > minor incompatibilities. It is possible to write a script that will > work differently in the two shells. Academics have even written some > scripts to demonstrate these incompatibilities really exist. > > The three users in the universe who actually have scripts that > exhibit such problems will likely take a break from fixing their > punch-card reader, and after complaining, will end up fixing the > handful of scripts that actually have problems running in one > shell or the other.
...or just a developer who doesn't do what they're supposed to and the user has to suffer. The request script for the Marvell Yukon Ethernet Adapter has some bad syntax that fails ksh93's POSIX-compliant printf behaviour. Of course it doesn't matter since changes coming soon to Solaris will break that anyway :) Still, it isn't difficult to find programs that will break or have unexpected behaviour. -- 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 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
