[indiana-discuss] [docs-discuss] review request: user FAQ

[Shawn Walker]

On 16/09/2007, Tim Bray <Tim.Bray at sun.com> wrote:
> On Sep 16, 2007, at 10:42 AM, Shawn Walker wrote:
>
> > Not any more than it does now. The people that created this problem
> > are the idiots that put #!/bin/sh at the top of their script and
> > assume that means bash, when it obviously isn't.
>
> Well, "obviously" it is on a few distros whose adoption dwarfs that
> of Solaris.  There are lots of people who've spent years living in an
> environment where this is true.  Branding them as idiots is, um,
> unhelpful to promoting the adoption of Solaris.

Oh, and for the record, I didn't start using Solaris until 2005. I've
used Linux since 1995 and I have never assumed #!/bin/sh was bash. So
if you think I'm saying all of this because I'm some die-hard ancient
Solaris user, I'm not. I use RedHat Enterprise Linux at work and ran
GNU/Linux distributions at home for years.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it. " --Donald Knuth