On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 05/27/2012 07:09 AM, Jon Seymour wrote: > >> I understand that the behaviour is unspecitied by POSIX - I didn't >> know that before, but I know that now - thanks. >> >> That said, from the point of view of promoting interoperable scripts, >> my view is that it (in an ideal world**) would be better if bash chose >> to fail, while executing in POSIX mode, in this case. > > Sounds like you want debian's 'posh', which is even stricter than > 'dash', and excellent for pointing out use of extensions by failing > loudly at any encountered extension, including == under test.
Thanks, I'll check it out. jon.
