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Re: test patches

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: hzoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zoltan Hidvegi)
Subject: Re: test patches
Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 15:00:46 +0100 (BST)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199705090742.DAA09847@xxxxxxxxxx> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at May 9, 97 03:42:03 am

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

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