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I didn't mean to start a holy war here! ;) Bash is also ok ;)

2009/5/12 R P Herrold <herrold at centos.org>:
> On Tue, 12 May 2009, William L. Maltby wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:42 -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
>
>>>> For widest possible coverage, something like bash should be considered.
>>> curious -- when coding under that criterion, I end up at:
>>> ? ? ?/bin/sh
>>> in my script's shebang ? ;)
>
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr ?1 17:17 /bin/sh -> bash
>>
>> As it should be.
>
> The use of a link is not a statement that /bin/sh behaves as
> bash; ?the interpreter notes how it was called, and acts to
> the shell dialect restrictions chosen by how it is invoked.
>
> -- Russ herrold
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