From: Bruce Stephens <stephens@math.ruu.nl>
To: hzoli@cs.elte.hu (Zoltan Hidvegi)
Cc: srb@cuci.nl, pws@ifh.de, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Procmail rejects zsh as being "broken"
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 15:07:06 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199608011307.PAA02895@cantecler.math.ruu.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199608011302.PAA27110@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at Aug 1, 96 03:02:48 pm
> Well, when zsh is invoked as zsh it does not pretend to be Bourne shell
> compatible. That's not a bug. Zsh is really Bourne compatible if called
> as sh. The complicated *zsh* test in procmail is unnecessary. It'll never
> work. The problem is that procmail tells that zsh is broken. Zsh is not
> broken, it is simply different from a Bourne shell when invoked as zsh.
> Procmail should just inform the user that it uses /bin/sh or whatever
> instead of zsh and should not spread misinformation about zsh.
>
> Zoltan
Darn. I was about to say this. It's perfectly reasonable for the
package to default to /bin/sh, since I don't care what shell it uses,
for the most part. And /bin/sh might well be zsh in disguise, but
that's OK because when invoked as /bin/sh, it'll work as procmail
expects.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-08-01 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-08-01 8:28 Andrej Borsenkow
1996-08-01 8:40 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-08-01 11:29 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
1996-08-01 11:43 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-08-01 12:04 ` Zefram
1996-08-01 12:11 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-08-01 12:33 ` Zefram
1996-08-01 13:00 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-08-01 12:23 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
1996-08-01 13:02 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-01 13:07 ` Bruce Stephens [this message]
1996-08-01 14:44 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
1996-08-01 14:59 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-08-02 0:54 ` Zefram
1996-08-02 0:59 ` Zefram
1996-08-02 1:20 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
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