RFA: Fix the shell used to execute mloop.in

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Thu Jul 24 15:14:00 GMT 2008


Hi Frank,

>>> Is there some reason you can't just hard-code SHELL=/bin/sh in
>>> genmloop.sh?
>> Because /bin/sh is not the appropriate shell to use on some systems.  (I 
>> know for example than on some Solaris machines using /bin/zsh is better).
> 
> If the associated shell script not compatible with the unix standard
> /bin/sh, perhaps that needs to be fixed.

Oh no, the script is compatible with /bin/sh.  It is just that (if I 
remember correctly) on some earlier versions of Solaris /bin/sh is 
broken and you need to use /bin/zsh instead.

Cheers
   Nick




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