Chet, can you weigh in on http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1038 ? There is a question of whether bash's choice of setting PS1='\s-\v\$ ' is correct in --posix mode, or whether it should be merely PS1='\$ ' when started in sh mode. Allowing more than just the dollar (or hash for root) and space would require a tweak to the POSIX wording.
Personally, I _like_ the longer prompt (it quickly lets me know whether I'm using bash or some other shell), and you can always set PS1 to whatever you want if the shell-startup default wasn't appropriate, but if it is easier to patch 'bash --posix' to use a shorter prompt than it is to fix the POSIX wording, then that may be the course to take. Also, the bash behavior of modifying PS4 during subshells does not match what other shells do. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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