From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23343 invoked from network); 5 Jun 1997 07:27:04 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 5 Jun 1997 07:27:04 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA16196; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 03:18:52 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 03:18:52 -0400 (EDT) Sender: rz2a022@rrz.uni-hamburg.de Message-Id: <3396694A.451B86E9@rrz.uni-hamburg.de> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 09:22:50 +0200 From: Bernd Eggink Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum der Uni Hamburg X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.29 i586) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: " (Zoltan T. Hidvegi)" Cc: zsh-workers Subject: Re: Bugs in 3.1.2 References: <9706041945.AA23176@belgium.fishkill.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"u55Nk2.0._y3.RXcbp"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3207 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu (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