Re: NAK (bashizm in the /bin/sh script): [PATCH v3] doc/oops-tracing: add Code: decode info

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Sat Jun 23 2007 - 09:32:39 EST


On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 03:17:27PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Saturday 23 June 2007 13:09, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > On Saturday 23 of June 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Here's a nickel. Get yourself a real shell.
> >
> > POSIX compilant shell isn't real shell?
>
> In this case it's not good enough. We're not writing POSIX portable software
> here, but Linux software where /bin/sh is /bin/bash. Similar to the Linux
> kernel which is not written in portable ISO C.

Well, it can also be zsh or pdksh, but I suspect that the code is valid on
them too.

Willy

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