Re: POSIXLY_CORRECT and install scripts
> > If a maintainer really needed a non-posix compliant feature and did
> > "POSIXLY_CORRECT= foo" in the script I guess there wouldn't be a serious
> > problem for Debian. But It seems like it would still be a bad idea. In any
> > case there would be virtually no reason to ever feel the need to do that.
> > Nearly all the changes POSIXLY_CORRECT makes are things like not permuting
> > command-line arguments, using 512b blocks in df(1) (making df -k the norm),
> > etc.
>
> Oh I dunno, I had to do exactly that in debconf; in posixly correct mode
> I could not pass select list params after a "--" parameter, and it is
> unsafe to pass them to whiptail in any other way. Granted that
> limitation of whiptail could be considered a bug.
Well, within POSIX limitations, it is impossible to determine the
end of parameters meant for whiptail, and I can't think offhand of a
way of passing a non-option parameter starting with a hyphen.
regards,
junichi
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