Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > According to POSIX they shouldn't ignore the value in the
> > environment. At least ash seems to get this right:
>
> My reading of the XPG/4 page is that shells are allowed to honor or
> ignore it as they see fit. Therefore, this is a case where my
> proposal triggers. A
> On 21-May-01, 05:22 (CDT), Patrik Hagglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I don't see what you mean by "the initial value of the IFS
> > variable". Is there anything that is unspecified for field
> > splitting in IEEE Std. 1003.2-1992? Isn't "
> ! The standard shell interpreter `/bin/sh' is a
> ! symbolic link to a POSIX compatible shell. Since the POSIX
> ! standard for shells leaves important areas unspecified,
> ! wherever it is lacking, `/bin/sh' shall follow the
> ! consensus behavior of other shell int
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