On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 08:08:57AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote: > | If it's more important that the nightly test runs come up clean than > | that it actually check for correct behavior so sh gets fixed, the test > | script should at least document what the correct behavior is. I have > | done this much, although I'm inclined to think the changes should be > | reverted entirely. > > Please show me a shell implementation where those tests work, and then > I will accept that reverting them is TRT. I personally cannot find one. > Also all the tests now behave consistently in ksh, bash, and ash so I > am inclined to believe that they are correct.
The last time I tried, the behavior of sh, ksh, and bash diverged substantially on some of them. Others, yes, it's posix on one side and all extant implementations on the other... this is why I was trying to secure a consensus, but that hasn't happened; it's too fiddly and consequently ~nobody cares enough to wade into the gory details. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org