posix-shell.m4: reject opensolaris's "sh (AT&T Research) 1993-12-28 s+"

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+2008-09-16  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
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+       posix-shell.m4: reject opensolaris's "sh (AT&T Research) 1993-12-28 s+"
+       * m4/posix-shell.m4 (gl_POSIX_SHELL): Reject a shell that lets
+       a umask modification leak out of a subshell.  Otherwise, the
+       opensolaris /bin/sh would be accepted and thus cause unwarranted
+       failures in the coreutils test suite.
+
 2008-09-16  Paolo Bonzini  <bonzini@gnu.org>
 
        * tests/test-poll.c (connect_to_socket): Allow non-blocking connect