From: Zefram <zefram@tao.co.uk>
To: luomat+Lists/Zsh/workers@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J Luoma)
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: zsh-workers: zsh-3.1.4
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 08:21:16 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199806020721.IAA20016@taos.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199806011633.MAA26654@luomat.peak.org> from "Timothy J Luoma" at Jun 1, 98 12:33:53 pm
Timothy J Luoma wrote:
>Yet another reason, is it not, why /bin/sh should be /bin/sh and not
>/bin/something-that-wants-to-pretend-it-is-sh ????
No, plenty of `real' sh's choke on that construct. We cater to
idiosyncracies of Bourne shell variants right back to V6 (hence no shell
functions); bash now counts as such a variant, though it doesn't seem
to have any special restrictions not present in any earlier sh.
>TjL, still wondering why people fix things that aren't broken
With me, it's a case of "I know it works in practice, but does it work
in theory?".
-zefram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-06-02 7:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-06-01 8:19 Zefram
1998-06-01 15:56 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-06-01 16:07 ` Zefram
1998-06-01 16:33 ` Timothy J Luoma
1998-06-01 18:09 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-06-01 18:35 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1998-06-02 7:21 ` Zefram [this message]
1998-06-02 16:08 ` Chet Ramey
1998-06-01 21:53 ` Wayne Davison
1998-06-02 7:31 ` Zefram
1998-06-02 9:50 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-07-23 8:11 ` blocking read stdin patch (Re: zsh-workers: zsh-3.1.4) yamagata
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