On Aug 16, 2020, at 12:21 PM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > I see nothing in your report about bash disobeying POSIX, but rather > confusion on your part about what POSIX actually requires.
I didn't say it violated POSIX. My expectations were set by the Bash Manual, which describes the behavior I'm expecting in the Shell Builtin Commands section: > Unless otherwise noted, each builtin command documented as accepting options > preceded by ‘-’ accepts ‘--’ to signify the end of the options. To be fair, the documentation later calls out that "echo does not interpret -- to mean the end of options", but this wasn't obvious on first reading. If the demonstrated behavior is correct and/or desirable, then it's not a bug. I still found it surprising, but I'm honestly not sure how to improve the documentation to draw more attention to the known behavior. Maybe it could be bolded, or listed as a caveat, because it's easy to overlook.
