Thanks for pointing me to that issue report. -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:47:11 -0600 > Von: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> > An: Rainer Blome <rainer.bl...@gmx.de> > CC: Dan Douglas <orm...@gmail.com>, bug-bash@gnu.org > On 07/04/2012 09:37 AM, Rainer Blome wrote:
> > * Different POSIX shell implementations are free to behave > > differently, because the behavior is not specified exactly. > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/set.html > Actually, that's where you are wrong. POSIX _does_ specify bash's > current behavior (in fact, bash changed behavior to match POSIX) Is POSIX an open and public standard? Can you please provide a link to where this is documented? The link I gave is apparently not the right one. > http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=52 Thanks for pointing to that issue record. Is this part of the standard yet? > which even includes this example: > [clear doc omitted...] That is what I was suggesting in the first place, clear documentation. Hope it makes it into the standard docs, if it hasn't already. > > * Some shell implementations *do* behave differently from Bash > > in this regard. At least on AIX, ksh and sh do so. > > Only because they haven't been patched to obey POSIX yet. OK. Rainer
