Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:38:34 -0400 | From | Sean <> | Subject | Re: NAK (bashizm in the /bin/sh script): [PATCH v3] doc/oops-tracing: add Code: decode info |
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On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:17:27 +0200 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> 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.
There's no rule that says /bin/sh is always /bin/bash. What Novell distributions do does not translate to all of "Linux". If you are writing scripts that rely on bash then "#!/bin/bash" is the appropriate way to document that and give it the best chance of working portably.
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