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From: | Ken Hornstein |
Subject: | Re: [Nmh-workers] [Nmh-commits] [SCM] The nmh Mail Handling System branch, master, updated. 1.5-branchpoint-847-g189ad43 |
Date: | Fri, 06 Dec 2013 23:00:48 -0500 |
>> You're kidding, right? There are Bourne shells out there that don't >> grok $(...)? And just when I was ready to join with the new century >> :-P > >it was a ksh change. so, pdksh and bash have it. but it's not required >for posix /bin/sh, so, i don't think nmh should depend on it. I think I have to disagree: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html Says $(...) should work. A more relevant question is: how long should we consider Solaris a relevant platform? It pains me to say it, but there's no getting around the fact that unless some miracle happens I don't really see what the long-term future is there. AFAIK it's the only holdout that ships a non-POSIX /bin/sh. --Ken
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