Re: mksh import

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 08:41:08AM -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote:
> | Unfortunately bash doesn't implement some of them, and has a lot of
> | non-standard extensions that really just cause portability issues.
> 
> As I said, I don't care if a standards body approved a Bash feature
> -- I care about being able to do a job.  Bash being not portable would
> make me think about using a different shell but because it is more
> portable than anything else, why should I care about a "standard"?
> It works; it works well.

Bash is not even compatible with the rest of the GNU shell tools. How
else would you explain that the test builtin and /usr/bin/test from
coretuils are not compatible?

Joerg