Re: Non POSIX.2 compliance in sh and ksh

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    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.

kre