"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <c...@debian.org> writes: > PS: I think that dash is a step toward a truly posix shell, but it is > not yet a posix shell: we still need fewer extentions. So in five/ten > year we will change it again.
I doubt that we're going to move in that direction farther than where dash already is. The extensions that are left in dash are by and large things that people really want to use and that are helpful in practical ways for writing reasonable scripts. I think it's more likely that POSIX will end up adopting some of those extensions. (I certainly hope this will happen for things like test -a.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
