Re: terminating lines with accidental eof

[Eric Blake]

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According to Martin Wheatley on 7/5/2006 2:58 AM:
> 
> Linking /bin/sh to /bin/bash does NOT maintain the bourne shell API.
> 
> For example,
> 
> Tradition using a traditional bourne shell ...
> 
> xn-sysadm-4 $ sh
> xn-sysadm-4 $ PWD=fred
> xn-sysadm-4 $ cd /
> xn-sysadm-4 $ echo $PWD
> fred
> xn-sysadm-4 $

That is a bug in traditional bourne shell, and you should not rely on it.
 POSIX does not permit manually setting PWD to anything other than an
actual absolute name, and even allows implementations to reject your
attempt to set it to the relative name "fred" as though you had been
trying to set a read-only variable.

> 
> But with bash linked as "sh"...
> 
> xn-CDO-2 $ cd /tmp
> xn-CDO-2 $ ln -s /bin/bash ./sh
> xn-CDO-2 $ ./sh
> xn-CDO-2 $ PWD=fred
> xn-CDO-2 $ cd /
> xn-CDO-2 $ echo $PWD
> /

POSIX requires this behavior, whether bash is emulating sh (in which case,
it is really trying to be POSIX compliant, rather than compatible to old
broken bourne sh), or using full extensions.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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