Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Pure POSIX doesn't allow signal numbers, but the XSI extension to POSIX >> does and dash and posh both support them. We do not, in general, >> accept XSI extensions, but it's hard to argue strongly for excluding a >> feature that even posh supports. > Is there a good reason that we do not in general accept XSI extensions? > The ones that I've noticed while reading SUSv3 are features that I > expect a normal Unix system to have. I don't remember exactly which ones there were, but when I did some more comprehensive research a while back, there were several major ones that weren't supported by dash. Since one of the practical points for this whole exercise is to let people use dash as /bin/sh, since it can be much faster, that seemed like a good argument against it. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
