From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26445 invoked from network); 2 Jun 1998 07:30:07 -0000 Received: from ns2.primenet.com.au (HELO primenet.com.au) (7795@203.24.36.3) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 2 Jun 1998 07:30:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 9235 invoked from network); 2 Jun 1998 07:30:05 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns2.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 2 Jun 1998 07:30:05 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA27034; Tue, 2 Jun 1998 03:20:27 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 03:20:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Zefram Message-Id: <199806020721.IAA20016@taos.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: zsh-workers: zsh-3.1.4 To: luomat+Lists/Zsh/workers@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J Luoma) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 08:21:16 +0100 (BST) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199806011633.MAA26654@luomat.peak.org> from "Timothy J Luoma" at Jun 1, 98 12:33:53 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: <"GIc56.0.Ic6.wUwSr"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/4032 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu 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