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Re: test patches

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: hzoli@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Zoltan T. Hidvegi)
Subject: Re: test patches
Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 21:40:12 +0100 (BST)
Cc: zefram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <9705091809.AA14534@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Zoltan T. Hidvegi" at May 9, 97 02:09:17 pm

Zoltan T. Hidvegi wrote:
>You are right, but if I want to tell people that here is zsh, just link it
>to sh and use it, they will complain that it brakes this and that.

Having brace expansion on in sh mode potentially breaks some programs that
depend on POSIX.  We do intend zsh to be a POSIX conformant sh, don't we?

>                         And some Linux developers simply tell you, that if
>/bin/sh is not bash, then your Linux system is broken anyway.

Anyone that tells you that is mistaken.  Even the Linux kernel Makefiles
don't assume that /bin/sh is bash.

-zefram

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