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From: Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk, bug-bash@gnu.org
Subject: POSIX compliance of shells - where to ask/talk about it?
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 21:17:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020725201713.GA17071@stu163.keble.ox.ac.uk> (raw)


Hi all,

Where should one ask/talk about POSIX shell compliance (looking for a
mailing list probably)?

I am reading the standard at
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/xcu_chap02.html
and finding it very imprecise - disappointingly so (am I looking in the
wrong place?). I am therefore looking to implementations to clarify the
standard, but with things like this (all shells invoked as sh, bash
given --posix):

printf "%s\n" `echo '\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'`
printf "%s\n" "`echo '\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'`"

Using shells/ash:
\\\\
\\\\

Using shells/bash:
\\\\\\\\
\\\\\\\\

Using shells/zsh:
\\\\
\\\\\\\\

it is not really helping...


% zsh --version
zsh 4.0.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
% bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
% dpkg -l ash bash zsh
ii  ash            0.3.8-37       NetBSD /bin/sh
ii  bash           2.04-9         The GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii  zsh            4.0.4-31       A shell with lots of features.


Thanks
Ian


             reply	other threads:[~2002-07-25 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-25 20:17 Ian Lynagh [this message]
2002-07-26 18:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-07-30 11:17 ` Peter Stephenson
2002-07-30 12:06   ` Oliver Kiddle
2002-07-30 12:48     ` Peter Stephenson

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