From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20113 invoked from network); 1 Jun 1998 18:41:28 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 1 Jun 1998 18:41:28 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA12270; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:35:30 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:35:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199806011835.NAA04754@frontiernet.net> Subject: Re: zsh-workers: zsh-3.1.4 In-Reply-To: <980601110926.ZM27014@candle.brasslantern.com> from Bart Schaefer at "Jun 1, 98 11:09:26 am" To: schaefer@brasslantern.com (Bart Schaefer) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:35:32 -0500 (CDT) Cc: luomat+Lists/Zsh/workers@luomat.peak.org, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL35 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"AQTri3.0.c_2.nHlSr"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/4028 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > } Yet another reason, is it not, why /bin/sh should be /bin/sh and not > } /bin/something-that-wants-to-pretend-it-is-sh ???? Bash and zsh are real enough for me. /bin/sh is /bin/sh no matter if it's bash or zsh :-). And if something does not work when /bin/sh is a copy of zsh, than it is probably a zsh bug, and we'll fix it, right? But how can I fix the old Bourne Shell for which I have no source? > Unfortunately, there's no (?) PD implementation of the pure old-fashioned > Bourne shell that can be distributed with Linux. It's either pretend, or > don't have a /bin/sh at all, I think. ash is quite close. You'd still need to remove some features from ash to get a real old-fashionned shell. > That said, I'm not entirely sure that the Bourne shell wouldn't also have > choked on that construct. My guess is it was tested with zsh and ksh, > not with a "real" sh. Actually, zsh is probably the only shell which does not choke on for i in ; do echo hehe; done But as long as it affects only make clean, it is not that bad as the configure bug in 3.1.3 was. Zoli