On Thursday 26 February 2009 04:27:44 Timothy Redaelli wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 February 2009 23:45:41 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > i recall it being incorrect in some cases (it checked for what dash
> > supports, not what POSIX supports), but that was a while ago, so maybe my
> > experience is dated at this point.  otherwise, integrating it sounds sane
> > to me, and if we can push fixes back to debian, even better.
>
> It does not fail, the problem is that some construct works only on some
> shells or systems (for example type and kill -HUP warnings).
>
> Maybe we should add a getopt flag (-q for example) to mask that types of
> warnings, or maybe we should (for Gentoo/Alt) adapt files to be (almost)
> POSIX compliant (so command -v instead of type, kill -s HUP instead of
> kill -HUP, and go on)

i'm totally not following.  we were talking about POSIX shell syntax, but now 
you're talking about utilities as well ?
-mike