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Author Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy
David Weinehall

2006-11-15, 1:32 am

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:03:54PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Nov 14, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
>
> No, there is no such issue. The issue is that a few people tried to
> remove all use of test -a/-e and local from /bin/sh scripts,


I admit belonging to the group of some people here.

> and failed
> miserably.


And you belong to the group of people that caused it to fail...

> Before this there was a widely agree definition of what
> /bin/sh needs to support and almost no bugs related to this.



Regards: David
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