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Date:      Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:15:21 +0200
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, jhb@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, stefanf@FreeBSD.org, marcus@marcuscom.com, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sh expand.c parser.c parser.h
Message-ID:  <484551F9.9070300@FreeBSD.org>
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Coleman Kane wrote:

> If we chose to do that, then I'd also suggest a compile flag to turn on
> "strict POSIX compliance". Then, perhaps some ports-auto-build-box
> somewhere could generate a report of the configure scripts that do such
> things, and could be used to nag them into fixing this problem.

This could certainly be done, but the requirement is the set of 
developers to process the output.

 > Maybe someone should nag the bash developers...

The bash developers have taken pride in how they have mangled their 
shell to support C-like syntax.

Kris



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