Re: Non-POSIX shells

[ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Sander Vesik wrote:

> Solaris users may well have bash installed, but that doesn't help *unless*
> the script actualy asks for bash and doesn't just pretend that it lives in
> a world where everybody has /bin/sh or /usr/bin/sh being bash. The same
> applies if you do s/bash/ksh/ or similar.

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

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