Re: Error handling question

[Chet Ramey]

> > With Solaris still shipping a Bourne shell (rather than a POSIX shell)
> > in /bin/sh that means you're stuck with 7th Edition semantics unless
> > you're willing to put in tricks to try to re-invoke your script under
> > /usr/xpg4/bin/sh or /bin/sh5 or ksh or bash or whatever.
> 
> Such dicussions are a mine field.  But I believe here you are really
> confusing Solaris (quite recent SVR4-like shell) with Ultrix (sh: V7-like
> shell without functions ./. sh5: SVR2-like shell).

Solaris's default shell, though more modern than the old Ultrix one, is not
Posix-conformant.  It is more capable than the 7th edition shell,
nevertheless. :-)

Chet

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