* Clint Adams wrote on Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:16:52PM CET: > > I think this message explains it fairly well: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-07/msg00010.html > > I'm not sure how this meshes with 2.6.3: > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_06_03
> Do you know if there's been any discussion about this on the austin list > or if I'm misreading this? No, I'm not certain. You could ask on the Autoconf list about further details, or take this straight to an Austin group list. FWIW, the only slightly related discussion I could find on opengroup.org was this: http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/ag/msg09304.html Quoting this message of that discussion: http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/ag/msg09306.html | The intent should have been to have `` behave as it did in historical | shells, not to make any changes. The recursive rule is a change | that is no benefit to either implementors or to users. and extrapolating that to the issue at hand, it seems that pdksh (in POSIX mode) and posh get it wrong: AFAIK historical shells behaved differently. Cheers, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
