From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16506 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2006 18:03:30 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.4 (2006-07-25) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=ham version=3.1.4 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 7 Sep 2006 18:03:30 -0000 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at sunsite.dk does not designate permitted sender hosts) Received: (qmail 27805 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2006 18:03:18 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 7 Sep 2006 18:03:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 17699 invoked by alias); 7 Sep 2006 18:03:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 10690 Received: (qmail 17689 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2006 18:03:09 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 7 Sep 2006 18:03:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 26508 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2006 18:03:08 -0000 Received: from mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (81.103.221.49) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 7 Sep 2006 18:03:07 -0000 Received: from aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20060907180306.ERPK1865.mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 19:03:06 +0100 Received: from pwslaptop.csr.com ([81.107.41.155]) by aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with SMTP id <20060907180306.MFFK23938.aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@pwslaptop.csr.com> for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 19:03:06 +0100 Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 19:03:01 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: A POSIX and a UTF-8 question Message-Id: <20060907190301.b48d23b0.p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> In-Reply-To: <20060905182334.82235.qmail@web36810.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <060904141156.ZM9449@torch.brasslantern.com> <20060905182334.82235.qmail@web36810.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.6 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 11:23:34 -0700 (PDT) Daniel Qarras wrote: > > } - is there any documentation explaining conformance of zsh as > > /bin/sh > > } with the latest POSIX sh spec? > > > > No, not really. What exactly do you mean by "the latest" by the way? > > I've been following their mailing list, and there's a new revision > > coming up for publication later this year. > > I noticed this also and that's why I was talking about the "latest and > greatest" but of course it is more important to know conformance > regarding to any standard version, not just the latest. Unfortunately, the documentation is "if you start zsh in sh mode [how to do this is in the normal documentation, at least] it sort of works most of the time". I'm sure there are many bits that aren't quite right, but nobody's kept track of them all, and I don't suppose anybody's got the time. It's one of the disadvantages of having only a handful of us actively maintaining the internals in our spare time. This task wouldn't need familiarity with the C code, though. One recent headline feature is that in 4.3 (but not 4.2) Wayne has fixed it so that (as far as I know) word splitting in sh mode is according to other shells. That has probably been the most noticeable problem in recent years. -- Peter Stephenson Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/