On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, David Laight wrote:

: >   Solaris's /bin/sh is broken in some fantastic and amazing ways.
:
: Not really!  it is a 'proper' bourne shell :-)

Not by POSIX or X/Open standards for sh(1).  It's a `historic' or
`traditional' Bourne shell, yes, but not a `proper' one.

: $ xy=:x:y
: $ IFS=:
: $ set $xy
: $ echo $1
:
: (traditional sh sets $1=x, ksh et al set $2=x)

You'll note that NetBSD's /bin/sh (not just ksh) has the latter, conformant,
behavior.

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