From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 24 14:34:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B119D16A404 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:34:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from atom@smasher.org) Received: from atom.smasher.org (atom.smasher.org [69.55.237.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CDC013C455 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:34:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from atom@smasher.org) Received: (qmail 50098 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Feb 2008 05:32:56 -0000 Message-ID: <20080224053256.50097.qmail@smasher.org> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:32:54 +1300 (NZDT) From: Atom Smasher In-Reply-To: <20080223.120546.74701383.imp@bsdimp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 OpenPGP: id=0xB88D52E4D9F57808; algo=1 (RSA); size=4096; url=http://atom.smasher.org/pgp.txt References: <20080223123556.3eee709d@bhuda.mired.org> <20080223.110047.-397883947.imp@bsdimp.com> <20080223131937.182373b2@bhuda.mired.org> <20080223.120546.74701383.imp@bsdimp.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-POM: The Moon is Waning Gibbous (91% of Full) X-Hashcash: 1:20:0802240532:freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org::ZEHfyQqin9MiuuNy:000000 00000000000000000000000048hX Subject: Re: find -lname and -ilname implemented X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:34:06 -0000 On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Warner Losh wrote: <> agree. > Or course, we may need to adopt features from bash into our /bin/sh as > time marches forward. =============== i'll disagree on this one. linux (that i've seen) uses a symlink from sh to bash. if you execute /bin/sh, it's running bash. if you write a script on linux and it works with /bin/sh it may not work with a "real" bourne shell. i've seen it in kde, where it seems most of the development is done on linux. when i saw it, i filed a bug report with a fix (to make the script compatible with bourne shell). in that case, the answer is to suggest that kde/linux do the right thing, not emulate them when they do the wrong thing. <> agree. -- ...atom ________________________ http://atom.smasher.org/ 762A 3B98 A3C3 96C9 C6B7 582A B88D 52E4 D9F5 7808 ------------------------------------------------- "As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy." -- Christopher Dawson, The Judgment of Nations, 1942