Re: Changing the default simlink to sh [was: Password file with over 3000 users.]

--On September 27, 2007 6:53:16 AM +1000 Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 09:48:17AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 07:55:02PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
>> > BSD systems have their own non-GNU versions of standard utilities, so
>> > sh scripts from linux often wont work on *bsd anyway. and vice-versa.
>>
>> Whoa there. That needs some backing up. My understanding, based on
>> having read the man and info pages for lots of GNU utilities, is that
>> the GNU folks go to great lengths to preserve compatibility with
>> traditional Unix utilities.
>
> with which particular implementations? each vendor had (and still has)
> their own versions with not-quite-compatible command-line switches and
> sometimes even incompatible file & output formats.
>
> the GNU versions are the only ones that are standard across multiple
> unix-like operating systems.

I'll totally agree here. Cant' tell you how many times I've had a Makefile fail from various open source projects because of flags sent to mv and/or cp being different, or non-existent on *BSD (FreeBSD mostly). Received on Wed Sep 26 17:34:46 2007