From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA00232 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 23:10:04 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA07464; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 09:08:56 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 09:08:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Stephens Message-ID: <199608011307.PAA02895@cantecler.math.ruu.nl> Subject: Re: Procmail rejects zsh as being "broken" To: hzoli@cs.elte.hu (Zoltan Hidvegi) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 15:07:06 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: srb@cuci.nl, pws@ifh.de, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199608011302.PAA27110@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at Aug 1, 96 03:02:48 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"MVdx-1.0.Vq1.dnA0o"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1872 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > 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. -- Bruce Stephens | email: B.Stephens@math.ruu.nl Utrecht University | telephone: +31 30 2534630 Department of Mathematics | telefax: +31 30 2518394 P.O. Box 80010, 3508 TA Utrecht | The Netherlands |