From: ross@utopia.druid.com (Ross Ridge) Subject: Re: NetBSD's ash as /bin/sh substitute on Linux Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1993 09:57:18 GMT
torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>One thing to check for in cases like this is what arguments the shell
>actually uses for the "chdir()" call: it might be using the empty string
>(or even the NULL pointer), both of which probably work under BSD to
>give the "current directory",
I don't think NULL pointer works, but an empty string does under BSD.
>There may be other use of "BSD features" that break under POSIX (and
>thus linux),
Actually, this is something that BSD is supposed to have
inherited from V7 Unix.
Ross Ridge