FreeBSD sh not the only b0rked shell

[Matthias Andree]

Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery.com> writes:

> Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> writes:
>
>> Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> writes:
>>
>> Did I say this stinks? I mean, really stinks, like a festering pile of
>> dung? Why can't shells behave properly and consistently across systems?
>
> HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW.
>
> There is no such thing as a portable shell script.  Never has been,
> and never will be.

Yes, and I wonder how long it will take until GNU autoconf ships with
the full source of a stripped-down shell emulation in Perl or something.

-- 
Matthias Andree