From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Feb 23 16:30:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA12874 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:30:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.statsci.com (main.statsci.com [206.63.206.110]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA12869 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:30:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from apple.statsci.com [206.63.206.4] with smtp by main.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0vyoJO-0003wMC; Sun, 23 Feb 97 16:30 PST Received: from statsci.com [127.0.0.1] with smtp by apple.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0vynUk-0006uFC; Sun, 23 Feb 97 15:38 PST Message-Id: To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/2803: /bin/sh 'for' statement vs IFS setting problem References: <199702230640.WAA23740@freefall.freebsd.org> In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 23 Feb 1997 10:06:20 +0100." Reply-to: scott@statsci.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <1383.856741093.1@statsci.com> Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 15:38:14 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: > When in doubt about some feature, always ask the Korn shell first. > This is the shell blessed by Posix, with all its crocks. Blech...phooey...no comment (OK, maybe small comment :-)). > We are not aiming to become bug-compatible with the obsolete Bourne shell, > but we're aiming to become bug-compatible with Posix (which is basically == > bug-compatible with ksh). Yeah...I reran my test script on all those systems with /bin/ksh instead of /bin/sh and for the systems that actually had a /bin/ksh, I get the same results as FreeBSD. > 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 :-). So, I guess my bug report should be withdrawn if the idea is to maintain bug compatibility with ksh... Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org