Re: bin/37493: /bin/sh exits if shift fails, but shouldn't

[Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/37493; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/37493: /bin/sh exits if shift fails, but shouldn't
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 15:16:50 +0200

 Alan Barrett schrieb:
 >  According to another part of SUSv3, an "option or operand error"
 >  in a special built-in utility means that the shell must exit
 >  
 > <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_08_01>.
 >  I think that trying to shift too many parameters would fall under this
 >  category.
 
 Thank you for the explanation. I think that makes the PR a false one. 
 I'll document this quirk in the "pkgsrc portability guide" instead.
 
 Roland