Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:50:30 -0700 From: "Garrett Cooper" <gcooper@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, gcooper@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/125855: sh(1) allows for multiline, non-escaped control structures (and thus isn't POSIX compliant) Message-ID: <364299f40807220750lc12de99y33ff05da97fb4243@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200807221303.m6MD3bas000198@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200807220836.m6M8av6k080061@freefall.freebsd.org> <200807221303.m6MD3bas000198@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
> Actually I think that both bash's and sh's behaviour is
> correct. As far as I can see in the refrenced standard
> sections, there is no requirement that there must be no
> newline character after the reserved word "!". It seems
> to be unspecified.
>
> FWIW, Solaris' POSIX shell (/bin/ksh and /usr/xpg4/bin/sh)
> allows a newline character, so it behaves the same as our
> /bin/sh. (Note that Solaris' /bin/sh is intentionally not
> a POSIX shell, it doesn't know "!" at all.)
>
> Best regards
> Oliver
Oliver,
Ok. That's what I thought when I was reading the OpenGroup spec
again. It's a bit confusing because I think this is a gray area...
I'll see what the POSIX folks say.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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