From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
To: david sowerby <d_sowerby@yahoo.com>, zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: select problem
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:21:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2d460de70901170321g66b892dei2a4e5fac9c445db8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090117092515.GA5400@sc.homeunix.net>
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:25, Stephane Chazelas
<Stephane_Chazelas@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> "select" is not standard (that is not in the POSIX sh, which
> is the only standard you can expect both bash and zsh to conform
> to (when called as "sh")) and is a kshism. It's also rather
> useless as one can do the same thing easily without.
zsh is not fully POSIX compliant and afaik, there are no plans to
ever make it that way, either. While zsh and POSIX agree most
of the time, using zsh as your sh _will_ get you strange effects.
I don't have time to dig up more, but look at [1] and [2] for some
examples.
Richard
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=329288
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=340058
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-17 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-12 19:48 david sowerby
2009-01-17 7:12 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2009-01-17 9:25 ` Stephane Chazelas
2009-01-17 11:21 ` Richard Hartmann [this message]
2009-01-18 14:39 ` Stephane Chazelas
2009-01-18 15:45 ` Richard Hartmann
2009-01-20 19:42 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-01-20 21:30 ` Richard Hartmann
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