> Ah. Before I provide my impramatur of approval over words that > shall be writ in stone, are there any shells that have POSIX+XSI > extensions+UP-in-interactive-mode? If so, this could be a useful > criteria. If there are no such shells, well, we live with what we > have, and reassess when POSIX compliance is reached.
I've whipped up a little test suite, to assess POSIX compliance. It is by no means near complete. The shells tested: ii ash 0.3.8-37 NetBSD /bin/sh ii bash 2.05a-11 The GNU Bourne Again SHell ii pdksh 5.2.14-6 A public domain version of the Korn shell ii zsh 4.0.4-43 A shell with lots of features. ii zsh-beta 4.1.0-dev-4+cv A shell with lots of features (dev tree) This is for SUSv3 compliance. The number represents lines of diff output from the "proper" output. These lines are not weighted, nor do they reflect a number of violations. ash 33 bash 10 bash (posix mode) 10 ksh 5 ksh (posix mode) 5 zsh 30 zsh (sh mode) 20 zsh-beta 28 zsh-beta (sh mode) 18 Now, for SUSv3 + UP + XSI: ash 42 bash 20 bash (posix mode) 18 ksh 9 ksh (posix mode) 9 zsh 36 zsh (sh mode) 26 zsh-beta 34 zsh-beta (sh mode) 24 I should note that the 5 for ksh represents conformance with Debian's echo policy. I'll put the tests on http://people.debian.org/~schizo/ in case anyone's interested. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
