Michael Nottebrock wrote: >On Tuesday 03 August 2004 09:28, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > >>>In short, everyone wins on -o, everyone loses >>>on -l. That seems fair. ;-) >>> >>> >> I believe "loses" is the keyword here. >> >> > >You don't loose anything if set POSIXLY_CORRECT > > I'm actually in favor of adding GNULY_CORRECT too, since you occasionally run into self extracting shellscripts and the like that assume GNU behavior (usually when installing Linux apps that come as a giant bash sharchive). I don't think I've ever run into this specific problem, but there is a definate possability and getting those shell scripts to work is hard enough without having some way to override the correct (but incompatable) behaviour. Just my $0.02Received on Tue Aug 03 2004 - 16:10:09 UTC
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