On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:03:54PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 14, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So, what features do we settle on? we can either standardize > > on, well, a standard: POSIX/SUSv3, -- but there are things we use > > that come from XSI. I guess we could standardize on SUSv3 +XSI > > shells. Would still make local illegal:). The issue here sems to be > > that we are beginning to see people want to add in various and sundry > > features which are not pure POSIX just because people have been using > > it in their scripts. > No, there is no such issue. The issue is that a few people tried to > remove all use of test -a/-e and local from /bin/sh scripts,
I admit belonging to the group of some people here. > and failed > miserably. And you belong to the group of people that caused it to fail... > Before this there was a widely agree definition of what > /bin/sh needs to support and almost no bugs related to this. Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
