Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> I still think the standard is pretty clear. However if BSD sh has never
> worked like that, I don't see how the standard ended up the way it did,
> given it was written to document what could be relied on across
> existing Unix variants at the time.
The Posix.2 standard (they were separate back then) predates the Almquist-
derived 4.4 BSD shell. The earliest versions of the standard were based
on the Korn shell and the System V sh. The first published version of
Posix.2 came out in 1992, and there had been a dozen or so drafts by then;
4.4 BSD wasn't released until 1993, and Net2 didn't make enough of a
ripple to affect the standard.
Chet
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