Python surpasses Perl in popularity?

[Casper H.S. Dik]

Stephane CHAZELAS <stephane_chazelas at yahoo.fr> writes:

>It's true it was vague and misleading,

>/bin is not the standard place to look for "sh" as far as the
>"POSIX" standard is concerned. That doesn't mean that standard
>commands (POSIX or not) cannot be found in /bin. But /bin/sh has
>been made a non-standard place for "sh". It's the "legacy"
>place. Those commands that have not undergone non-backward
>compatible changes with POSIX can still be found in /bin, the
>others are to be found in /usr/xpg<x>/bin (for the standard
>versions).

The proper place is "`getconf PATH`".  POSIX doesn't list any
pathnames.

Of course, the problem is then "where did getconf come from?".

Casper
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