Clint Adams wrote:
[not replying off-list because that seems counterproductive and arrogant]
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 03:49:15PM +, brian m. carlson wrote:
Actually, if it's invoked as /bin/sh, it is supposed to be
Bourne-compatible. That's my experience with the current version:
Not much effort is put into strict POSIX compliance, though people
certainly do complain about it[1].
I don't know what other versions do. I'm working on finding bugs with
zsh as /bin/sh; see #510358. If anyone knows about a good /bin/sh
(POSIX, XSI, or Debian) testsuite, please let me know off-list.
I'd certainly welcome improvements to the posh testsuite to that end.
Run the harness with category 'debian' or 'posix' depending on which
standard you're going for.
BTW Linux is not POSIX. Linux (LSB) has few incompatible rules.
Check the join working document austin (POSIX) and LSB:
http://www.opengroup.org/platform/single_unix_specification/doc.tpl?CALLER=index.tplgdid=13450
Personal opinion: it seems that linux will do some changes to be more
posix compatible, but for most of incompatibilities (IMHO) POSIX will
change toward linux.
ciao
cate
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