[Pkg-mwavem-devel] Bug#476761: Bug#476761: mwavem: bashism in /bin/sh script
Raphael Geissert
atomo64 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 21 20:24:27 UTC 2008
Hello Tony,
On 20/04/2008, tony mancill <tmancill at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hello Raphael,
>
> Thank you for the bug report. I see that PIPESTATUS[] is definitely a
> bashism, but I am confused as to why checkbashism reports "kill -9" as a
> possible bashism. Is it because kill is a built-in for bash, but not for
> dash (and the procps executable is used instead)?
No, it is because according to the specs it should be kill -s 9;
though both bash and dash (and other common POSIX shell scripts
interpreters) do allow kill -9.
>
> Thanks,
> Tony
>
Cheers,
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