On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 01:05:12PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > So a situation where we have absolutely no idea if and what POSIX > > specifies about something should be quite rare, and I'd be satisfied > > to leave this battle to shell implementers. If we come into a > > double mill, backing off by using less disputed shell features is > > always an option as well. > > This leaves nowhere to go if the author of the script and the author > of the shell have an unresolvable disagreement. Again, this has come > up in real life twice at least.
Debian has a protocol to follow if there is a dispute among maintainers. If everything fails, and no compromise can be reached, the technical committee can make a decision. If it helps, we can buy a copy of POSIX for every member of the technical committee. ;) Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
