From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1239 invoked from network); 9 May 1997 14:12:09 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 9 May 1997 14:12:09 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA07787; Fri, 9 May 1997 09:59:14 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 09:59:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Zefram Message-Id: <9760.199705091400@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: test patches To: hzoli@ny.frontiercomm.net (Zoltan Hidvegi) Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 15:00:46 +0100 (BST) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199705090742.DAA09847@hzoli.home> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at May 9, 97 03:42:03 am X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]9302.91 X-Phase: The Moon is Waxing Crescent (9% of Full) X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers X-Personality: INTJ X-This-is-not-HTML: Content-Type: text Resent-Message-ID: <"xfgUz3.0.cv1.nsoSp"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3103 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Zoltan Hidvegi wrote: > Unfortunately >some Linux programs assume that /bin/sh has brace expansion so I'm thinking >about making ignorebraces off by default even in sh mode. Please don't. Those Linux programs are assuming that sh is really bash, and are therefore broken. In my experience, considering how simple they are to fix, authors are usually willing to fix them. -zefram