From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14670 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2002 20:13:39 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 25 Jul 2002 20:13:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 28295 invoked by alias); 25 Jul 2002 20:13:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5192 Received: (qmail 28283 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2002 20:13:27 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 21:17:13 +0100 From: Ian Lynagh To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk, bug-bash@gnu.org Subject: POSIX compliance of shells - where to ask/talk about it? Message-ID: <20020725201713.GA17071@stu163.keble.ox.ac.uk> Mail-Followup-To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk, bug-bash@gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: Ian Lynagh 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