On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Bodo Moeller wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:07:07AM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
>
> >> [...] can we rely on shell functions to work everywhere?
>
> > As far as I know, shell functions are a defined part of sh.
>
> They are now, but this has not always been like that. The
> shell does not look the same everywhere -- we have seen
> Ultrix sh to work differently than usual shells, and maybe one
> of the systems does not support shell functions yet. (We
> could write a 'shtest' utility that looks for a shell that
> supports functions ...)
If ther any machines out there capable of running openssl that
don't have shell functions, I'd be glad to rewrite it without
shell functions.
Are ther really any?
>
>
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