[theamk]

Well, you gotta draw the line somewhere, right? You can ssh into all sort of weird places, like native windows machines, or routers which expose their own shell, and you cannot expect them to be as usable as the regular ones.

The systems with non-POSIX non-interactive shell are firmly in the "special" category. If a user decided to set their _non_interactive_ shell to fish - they know they are heading for trouble and should not be surprised. I would not worry about such users in my scripts for example.

[CGamesPlay]

Please correct me if I'm am wrong, but POSIX doesn't define a non-interactive or interactive shell, it only defines a login shell. You can't "set your non-interactive shell", only "set your login shell". OpenSSH could easily have decided to "join all arguments with spaces and pass them to sh -c", which would also have been a bad decision for the reasons listed in this article, but instead chose the even more esoteric choice of using the login shell, even when running non-interactive commands.