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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: /bin/sh isn't Bourne shell Date: 5 Feb 1996 11:43:53 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4f4qhp$48q@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ekrik$rlf@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk> <xcdensholio.fsf@woodlawn.uchicago.edu> <4enl74$ifr@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk> <DM1x4C.GML@deshaw.com> <4eo70i$o7j@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 ejr@dickens.bra01.icl.co.uk (Ed Randall) writes: > 'Scuse my ignorance, but who or what is "CSRG" ? The former Computer Science and Research Group at Berkeley. > Er, that's very nice and kind of you "purists", but no thanks. Is > this a case of "the standards are more important than the installed > base" where in this case, the installed base is any shell script > with "#!/bin/sh" at the top, where "/bin/sh" means Bourne shell, and > includes your very own "MAKEDEV" script, distributed with the > aforementioned 2.1.0-R ? On a Posix-compliant system, /bin/sh means `Posix shell', not `Bourne shell'. Posix does only know about a single shell. (And this one resembles ksh, much to my dislike in some points.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)