Re: Non POSIX.2 compliance in sh and ksh

[tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost]

Hello Robert,

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 08:04:12AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Mon, 11 Dec 2017 23:54:36 +0100
>     From:        tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost
>     Message-ID:  <20171211225436.GA27242%polynum.com@localhost>
> 
>   | I'm on NetBSD 6.1.5_PATCH amd64.
> 
> And for completeness, this was fixed in NetBSD-7 (all versions) and the
> fix was pulled up to netbsd-6 (but not netbsd-6-0 or netbsd-6-1) so if you
> updated /bin/sh sources as ...
> 
> 	cd .../src/bin/sh
> 	cvs update -dAP -rnetbsd-6
> 
> and rebuild, you should get a netbsd-6 /bin/sh on your system which will
> have that fix included (the fix dates from the beginning of November, 2013).
> 
> Of course, shells from that far ago (incl NetBSD-7 - all branches) have
> so many other bugs, errors, non-posixisms, etc, that this one hardly
> matters in the overall scheme of things.
> 
> In practice, they just tend not to matter all that much.
> 

Thanks for the informations (and for your work, by the way!)

Best regards,
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