| Marco d'Itri 2006-11-14, 1:17 pm |
| On Nov 14, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> 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, and failed
miserably. Before this there was a widely agree definition of what
/bin/sh needs to support and almost no bugs related to this.
--
ciao,
Marco
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