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From: Bernd Eggink <eggink@rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
To: " (Zoltan T. Hidvegi)" <hzoli@VNET.IBM.COM>
Cc: zsh-workers <zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu>
Subject: Re: Bugs in 3.1.2
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 09:22:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3396694A.451B86E9@rrz.uni-hamburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9706041945.AA23176@belgium.fishkill.ibm.com>

(Zoltan T. Hidvegi) wrote:
> 
> Bernd Eggink wrote:
> > 2. 'select' still doesn't check its input correctly. As 'atoi' is used,
> > any string starting with a valid number is accepted. IMHO it would be
> > better to use 'strtol' instead and check the delimiting character. This
> 
> I did check this before the release and ksh93, pdksh and bash all have the
> same behaviour as zsh.  So four completely different shell with different
> source base has the same behaviour. 

I know, but as I told you some time ago, David Korn himself considers
this behaviour a bug... And why not do better than other shells?

Bernd

-- 
Bernd Eggink
Regionales Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Hamburg
eggink@rrz.uni-hamburg.de
http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/eggink/BEggink.html


      reply	other threads:[~1997-06-05  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-06-04 18:52 Bernd Eggink
1997-06-04 19:44 ` Zoltan T. Hidvegi
1997-06-05  7:22   ` Bernd Eggink [this message]

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