On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 06:44:55PM +0100, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Tom.
>
> >>> This is just a patch to the Menuconfig script (can be easily adapted
> >>> to the other ones) that allows you to configure the kernel without
> >>> the requirement of bash (I tested it with ksh, in POSIX-only mode).
> >>> Feel free to flame me :P
>
> >> Does it also work in the case where the current shell is csh or tcsh
> >> (for example)?
>
> > Er.. why wouldn't it?
> > $ head -1 scripts/Menuconfig
> > #! /bin/sh
>
> > So this removes the /bin/sh is not bash test, yes?
>
> Q> # ls -l /bin/sh | tr -s '\t' ' '
> Q> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 7 1999 /bin/sh -> tcsh
> Q> #
>
> You tell me - the above is from one of the systems I regularly use,
> which does not even have bash installed...
So does tcsh work as a POSIX-sh when invoked as /bin/sh ?
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