Task 20522: GNU/Linux Standard Shell

Wichert Akkerman wichert at valinux.com
Mon Nov 6 13:15:59 PST 2000


Previously George Kraft/Austin/IBM wrote:
> The LSB needs to document a standard shell. There is a POSIX shell standard
> and we have a test for that. Will bash or pdksh pass the VSClite test
> suite?

Both ash and bash should be useable as a POSIX shell. For Debian we
have a policy that states /bin/sh has to be a POSIX compliant shell
and that works fine. I'm not sure if pdksh is fully POSIX compliant.

Wichert.

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