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

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