On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 12:19:04AM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:09:15PM +0200, Rudolf Polzer wrote: > > I just retested with that very command, and yes, the FreeBSD /bin/sh > > does behave the "non-POSIX" (and "obvious") way, and so does the > > Solaris /bin/sh. > > Yes, FreeBSD /bin/sh is not POSIX compliant here. Because the current > behaviour is explicitly documented and much more useful than the POSIX > behaviour, I don't really like changing it ;-)
How is it more useful? I can't see any case where it'd help... But I do understand it's defined like that in the spec, and that is what dash should follow. Best regards, Rudolf Polzer -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
