Subject: Re: script command
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 05/01/2003 21:29:30
Greywolf wrote:
> DL> > By comparison with Solaris, our sh is broken, btw:  Solaris behaves
> DL> > as expected.
> DL>
> DL> in what way do you mean 'expected' ?
> 
> Historically, sh -c "command args" has been required.  For it to have changed
> is most unexpected, but this is to be expected from POS-ix.

Yes, sh -c 'command args' should always execute 'command' with
arguments 'args'. Any shell not doing that is broken and needs to be
fixed.

Jaromir 
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