From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Feb 24 01:11:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA09958 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 01:11:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA09950 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 01:11:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA15784; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 10:10:50 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA29749; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 09:32:34 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 09:32:34 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: scott@statsci.com Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/2803: /bin/sh 'for' statement vs IFS setting problem References: <199702230640.WAA23740@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Scott Blachowicz on Feb 23, 1997 15:38:14 -0800 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Scott Blachowicz wrote: > > Strictly spoken, all these systems should ship with the Korn shell as > > /bin/sh if they claim Posix compliance. The Korn shell itself also > > thinks it were sh(1): > Except they probably don't wanna deal with the tech support fallout > of dealing with a different set of bugs :-). Features, not bugs. :-)) > So, I guess my bug report should be withdrawn if the idea is to maintain bug > compatibility with ksh... The idea is to maintain compatibility with Posix, but this means in effect to maintain bug compatibility with ksh, yes. Btw., the traditional /bin/sh has never really been defined in its behaviour. Thus, the bug compatibility you've seen between the various SysV systems has only one reason: they're using an identical source code. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)