From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4254 invoked from network); 9 May 1997 20:50:37 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 9 May 1997 20:50:37 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA20604; Fri, 9 May 1997 16:37:02 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 16:37:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Zefram Message-Id: <4612.199705092040@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: test patches To: hzoli@VNET.IBM.COM (Zoltan T. Hidvegi) Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 21:40:12 +0100 (BST) Cc: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <9705091809.AA14534@lotto.fishkill.ibm.com> from "Zoltan T. Hidvegi" at May 9, 97 02:09:17 pm X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]9304.30 X-Phase: The Moon is Waxing Crescent (11% of Full) X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers X-Personality: INTJ X-This-is-not-HTML: Content-Type: text Resent-Message-ID: <"qg1OG3.0.t15.jhuSp"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3107 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Zoltan T. Hidvegi wrote: >You are right, but if I want to tell people that here is zsh, just link it >to sh and use it, they will complain that it brakes this and that. Having brace expansion on in sh mode potentially breaks some programs that depend on POSIX. We do intend zsh to be a POSIX conformant sh, don't we? > And some Linux developers simply tell you, that if >/bin/sh is not bash, then your Linux system is broken anyway. Anyone that tells you that is mistaken. Even the Linux kernel Makefiles don't assume that /bin/sh is bash. -zefram