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

2009-07-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Chet Ramey [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 other shell I fo

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