SCO 6 (RE: FW: The grand finale)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Kenneth Brody (Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:07:15 -0500):
[...]
> However, if your script doesn't start with "#!/bin/sh" (and, honestly,
> how many of you always put the shell there?), and it depends on some
> Bourne-specific behavior which changes in Korn, you're SOL unless you
> change your script to either work under Korn, or add the "#!/bin/sh".
[...]

Just to clarify something...

I believe that programs made on SCO OS5 have a system() routine which
does work as documented, even on OS6.  Programs made on Unixware (and,
I presume, OS6 as well) have the broken system() function.

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