svn 15150... what the?

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 07:10:09PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Sunday 21 May 2006 2:59 pm, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> > click, click ?
> 
> I have no idea what you mean by that.
> 
> > On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 02:13:05PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> > >/bin/sh is posix.
> >
> > So what?
> 
> Why can't we trust /bin/sh to be there?  Will there ever be a sane environment 
> that does _not_ have a /bin/sh linking to the preferred shell?

There's an argument about whether these constitute "sane"
environments, but proprietary unices often have a 'traditional' shell
with broken semantics in /bin (same for the rest of the base tools)
and the posix-compliant ones hidden away in /usr/xpg or something like
that. :(

Rich