Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:00:36AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
> > Please be more specific.
> 
> ash:
> 
> does not handle multiple heredocs

Thanks, this will be fixed.

> read-write fd's do not behave usefully[1]

Not specified by POSIX.

> treats $10 as ${1}0

Forbidden by POSIX:

1358               interpreted as a decimal value, even if there is a leading ze
ro. When a positional parameter with
1359               more than one digit is specified, the application shall enclo
se the digits in braces (see Section
1360               2.6.2 (on page 2239)).

> does not support cd -L
> does not support cd -P

It's on my todo list.

> echo -n

Required by the current Debian Policy.  Trivial to change should we
ever head in that direction.

> incorrect output for command -v

The exact output of command -v is not given by POSIX.

> incorrect output for alias

More details please.
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