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Re: Function visibility


From: Matthew Woehlke
Subject: Re: Function visibility
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:30:11 -0500
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Stephane Chazelas wrote:
Note that #! /bin/sh will not always give you a POSIX shell.
Sometimes, it may give you an ancient shell that your Unix
vendor keeps there for backward compatibility.

THANK YOU! It's nice to know I'm not the only one laboring under wrong the notion that /bin/sh is always Posix. Which is not to say I don't wish that such OS's (*cough*Solaris*cough*) wouldn't get their act together and stop such nonsense, but...

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Matthew
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