[Pkg-mwavem-devel] Bug#476761: Bug#476761: mwavem: bashism in /bin/sh script

[Raphael Geissert]

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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