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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