Robert Elz <[email protected]> wrote: > > | POSIX allows it (leaves [^x] unspecified) but does not require > | it. Once ksh88 dies away or maintainers of ksh88-based shells > | eventually come around to adding it there, POSIX will be able to > | mandate it without problem. > > Not quite "without problem" ... implementations implement it (most anyway, > as you said) as in practice it works fine, but in general, having alternative ...
The currently only platform that was been certified against issue 7 tc2 is Oracle-Solaris 11.4 and that still uses a ksh88 based POSIX sh. This is obviously caused by the fact that is it easier to fix smaller non-compliances in ksh88 than to fix many POSIX deviations in ksh93. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sf.net/projects/schilytools/files/'
