From: Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] POSIX shell and "portable"
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:22:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1194254556.6977.46.camel@sapc154> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1194050878.16405.10.camel@uberpc.marples.name>
On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 00:47 +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
As it seems too few people really accept your suggestion, I feel it's
time for me to chime in too, although I don't know what exactly POSIX-sh
standard defines.
> On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 01:19 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > On 02-11-2007 17:35:08 +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> > > I don't see them as inferior.
> > > I see them as more portable and less confusing.
> >
> > Please stop calling it "more portable".
>
> But is it more portable as then then works across more than one shell.
>
> > The shell code you see in
> > configure can in a way be called "portable". Your POSIX compliant stuff
> > isn't.
>
> Sure it is - it should work on a shell that claims POSIX compliance.
>
> > In fact, by stating #!/bin/sh you actually make the code useless
> > on a number of platforms, where it would have been working fine if there
> > just were #!/bin/bash there.
>
> Then the issue is to fix their sh so it follows POSIX compliance.
> As soon as a dash, bb or FreeBSD sh issue is found where it deviates
> from POSIX but it works on bash a lot of people say "dash bug, therefore
> invalid
Agreed, but (speaking for alt/prefix):
Alt/prefix is designed to (mainly) work without superuser access on the
target machine, which may also be Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and the like.
/bin/sh on such a machine is not POSIX-shell, but old bourne-shell
(unfortunately with bugs often).
And it is _impossible_ to have sysadmins to get /bin/sh a POSIX-Shell
nor to have that bugs fixed.
But yes, on most machines there is /bin/ksh, which IMHO is POSIX
compliant (maybe also with non-fixable bugs).
Although I do not know yet for which _installed_ scripts it'd be really
useful to have them non-bash in alt/prefix, I appreciate the discussion.
To see benefits for alt/prefix too, it _might_ require that discussion
going from requiring /bin/sh being POSIX-sh towards being
bourne-shell...
>
> > It seems to me that you actually mean "more FreeBSD-able" or something,
> > which is a high price to pay for a relatively small part of Gentoo as a
> > whole.
>
> More embeddable.
> More BSDable.
> More Linuxable - bash isn't the only linux shell, there are plently of
> others.
More (generic) unix-able.
/haubi/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-05 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-02 13:44 [gentoo-dev] More general interface to use flags Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2007-11-02 14:04 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-02 14:27 ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2007-11-02 14:52 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-02 14:59 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-11-02 15:30 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-02 15:38 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-11-02 15:48 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-02 15:58 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-11-02 16:10 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-02 16:30 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-11-02 16:52 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-02 17:17 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-11-02 17:35 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-03 0:19 ` [gentoo-dev] POSIX shell and "portable" Fabian Groffen
2007-11-03 0:47 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-05 9:22 ` Michael Haubenwallner [this message]
2007-11-05 10:13 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-05 13:21 ` Michael Haubenwallner
2007-11-05 20:21 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-11-05 23:18 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-06 7:12 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-11-06 7:40 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-06 8:03 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-11-06 8:25 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-06 9:04 ` Michael Haubenwallner
2007-11-05 20:32 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-05 20:55 ` Fabian Groffen
2007-11-05 22:27 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-11-03 0:57 ` Natanael copa
2007-11-03 1:06 ` Roy Marples
2007-11-03 16:19 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-11-03 1:10 ` [gentoo-dev] " Roy Marples
[not found] ` <b41005390711022225i4f30bb01jbf5a040c60c4b088@mail.gmail.com>
2007-11-03 5:26 ` Fwd: [gentoo-dev] More general interface to use flags Alec Warner
2007-11-03 21:57 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-11-04 10:54 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-11-04 21:54 ` Alec Warner
2007-11-06 11:50 ` Steve Long
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