On 9/26/14, 10:51 AM, Steve Simmons wrote: > > On Sep 26, 2014, at 10:36 AM, Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> . . . I _also_ agree that since function exports are NOT required by POSIX, >> that it would be okay if we let /bin/bash continue to import functions >> by default, but have bash invoked as /bin/sh refuse to do imports by >> default. . . > > The more I see of how many bash-isms work when bash is invoked as /bin/sh, the more convinced I get that we need to either > > 1) make bash when invoked as /bin/sh fail those bash-isms It's come up before, and it's not something that bash has ever been intended to do. When invoked as /bin/sh, bash will behave as a posix superset. Posix allows this. > 2) build a 'real' /bin/sh without those compiled in. This begs the definition of 'real', but IMHO if it's not in POSIX, it shouldn't be in 'real' /bin/sh This is dash's niche. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@xxxxxxxx http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
