From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "/usr/bin/[" and coreutils
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:30:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111013163034.78a57a1f@rohan.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+czFiABDc6yh6=LBRn3n23b8VWBLDjTSfubX_a6=r1Nksku3A@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:59:21 -0400
Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The binaries are usually POSIX-compliant, whereas the builtins may
> > include extra bashisms (which tend to break apps expecting just
> > the basic POSIX behaviour)
>
> I haven't encountered POSIX-dependent apps breaking on bash, but I
> have encountered the reverse. My most annoying experience was when I
> tried building cinelerra on Debian a few years back. Cinelerra's
> script started with #!/bin/sh, but depended on bashisms--and I was
> running dash.
So you've also run into clueless devs and maintainers who know
almost nothing about shells?
Your example is an extreme one :-), but it's common enough to find
bashisms in scripts with an sh shebang
--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-13 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-12 5:35 [gentoo-user] "/usr/bin/[" and coreutils William Kenworthy
2011-10-12 5:42 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-12 16:49 ` Jonas de Buhr
2011-10-13 13:38 ` Jesús J. Guerrero Botella
2011-10-13 13:50 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-10-13 13:59 ` Michael Mol
2011-10-13 14:30 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2011-11-08 1:53 ` Claudio Roberto França Pereira
2011-11-08 6:01 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-08 6:03 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-10-12 5:42 ` Manuel McLure
2011-10-12 5:45 ` meino.cramer
2011-10-12 6:04 ` William Kenworthy
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