Re: Non-POSIX shells

[Drazen Kacar <dave willfork com>]

ERDI Gergo wrote:

> so why does Sun ship a non-fully-compliant shell as /bin/sh by default?

Because it's older that POSIX and it has some some constructs which would
not work in POSIX compliant sh. So a change could break some already
existing shell scripts, which is a big no-no in Sun's backwards
compatibility book.

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