From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 6 9: 6:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nike.ins.cwru.edu (nike.INS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.8.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A4F637BE34 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:06:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu) Received: (chet@localhost) by nike.ins.cwru.edu (8.9.3/CWRU-2.5-bsdi) id MAA22850; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 12:05:35 -0500 (EST) (from chet) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 12:04:53 -0500 From: Chet Ramey To: sheldonh@uunet.co.za Subject: Re: empty lists in for Cc: fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu Message-ID: <1000306170453.AA22843.SM@nike.ins.cwru.edu> Read-Receipt-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-In-Reply-To: Message from sheldonh@uunet.co.za of Sat, 04 Mar 2000 15:36:43 +0200 (id <57223.952177003@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:10:15 +0600, Max Khon wrote: > > > bash and ksh complain about unexpected ';'. > > /bin/sh (FreeBSD) thinks it's ok and does nothing. > > Which behaviour is more POSIXly correct? > > Neither bash nor ksh claim to be particularly POSIX compliant. Bash claims POSIX.2 compliance. If you have specific reports of non-compliance, send them to bug-bash@gnu.org. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet) Chet Ramey, CWRU chet@po.CWRU.Edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message