Re: Re: Is `#!/bin/sh' configurable?

We worked around the Ultrix /bin/sh problem for initdb.  If that is the
only place there is a problem, we can keep the fix for 7.2.


> On 8 May 2001, Doug McNaught wrote:
> 
> > Alexander Klimov <ask@wisdom.weizmann.ac.il> writes:
> > 
> > > Hi.
> > > 
> > > On some systems /bin/sh is not Burne Shell, e.g. /bin/sh is tcsh, but
> > 
> > *violent retching sounds*
> > 
> > IMHO, any system where /bin/sh doesn't point to an at-least-somewhat
> > Bourne-compatible shell is broken by definition...  Who perpetrated
> > this atrocity?
> 
> Sorry, I was misleaded by
> >sh -c 'echo $SHELL'
> /bin/tcsh
> 
> The /bin/sh is sh, but not SysV compatible -- there is /bin/sh5 for that.
> 
> Regards,
> ASK
> 
> 
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