Re: ksh closes file descriptors on exec -- patch to autoconf.texi

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 04:32:30PM +0200, Norman Gray wrote:
> May I suggest the following patch to the `Portable Shell Programming' 
> section of autoconf.texi?

I commited your patch to the CVS, as attached to this mail. Thanks.

> On Tru64 at least, ./configure scripts will 
> prefer ksh to /bin/sh because the latter doesn't implement $LINENO 
> properly (is that _really_ so important, says he plaintively...?)

No, it's not so important.  But it might be dangerous to touch the shell
selection routine without breaking it for some platform.
Perhaps even your Tru64 sh has some limitations which ksh doesn't have.

If you feel brave, try to submit a patch to improve the shell selection. ;-)

Stepan Kasal

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