Bug#519165: [Fwd: Bug#519165: bash 4 regression]

2009-07-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Chet Ramey chet.ra...@case.edu [2009.07.03.1952 +0200]: There is, in fact a de facto standard, but the bash4 behavior is what the Bourne and Korn shells have always done. In fact, the only way Martin's statement is true is if all other shells means dash, since that's the only

Bug#519165: [Fwd: Bug#519165: bash 4 regression]

2009-07-03 Thread Chet Ramey
Matthias Klose wrote: wouldn't this changed behaviour warrent a compatibility switch? I'm going to do what the Posix group decides. Read http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2009-06/msg00107.html for a summary; portions of which I will reproduce below. (And the line that got munged in