Geoff Clare <g...@opengroup.org> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling <joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote, on 17 Jul 2017:
> > In general, if Bourne Shell and ksh93 agree, this is most likely the right
> > behavior unless you discovered a real bug.
>
> The intended behaviour is that of ksh88, since that was the shell the
> POSIX description was based on. I checked ksh88 shells on Solaris 11
When Bourne Shell and ksh93 agree, it is most unlikely that ksh88, being in the
middle, behaves different.
> I thought initially that all uses of "command" should change to "utility",
> but I think it is common for exec to be used before a pipeline. For this
> to work correctly, I suspect that exec needs to be a reserved word.
Do you believe the parser should know about "exec"?
Jörg
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