Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But note that bash interprets -n as an option, which is not compliant with > XSI.
Bash doesn't claim conformance to XSI, so that's OK as far as Bash is concerned. Autoconf (and I assume Squid) is supposed be portable to all POSIX hosts, not merely POSIX+XSI hosts, so it should work with Bash; so this is still a bug in either Autoconf or Squid, not in Bash. There's a little history here. POSIX 1003.2-1992 said that echo has implementation-defined behavior if given any options, or if any operands contain '\'. This allows both traditional (echo -n) and System V (backslash) interpretation. SUSv2 came down squarely on the System V side. But the BSD folks revolted on this, and POSIX 1003.1-2001 reverted to the POSIX 1003.2-1992 spec, with the compromise of putting the System V stuff into the XSI ghetto. _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
