configure shell game

Demi Marie Obenour demiobenour at gmail.com
Fri Jun 5 05:02:36 AEST 2026


On 6/2/26 11:45, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Nico Williams <nico at cryptonector.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 11:28:07PM +1000, Darren Tucker via openssh-unix-dev wrote:
>>> I was recently reminded of this nonsense from the Solaris /bin/sh while
>>> running a regression test:
>>>
>>> run test proxy-connect.sh ...
>>> [...]/proxy-connect.sh: warning: line 6: `...` obsolete, use $(...)
>>> [...]/proxy-connect.sh: warning: line 6: `...` obsolete, use $(...)
>>> [...]/proxy-connect.sh: warning: line 15: `...` obsolete, use $(...)
>>
>> Nowadays $() is POSIX.  Is there any supported system where /bin/sh does
>> not support $()?
> 
> Yes.

Which one?
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
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