Glenn Fowler wrote:
> the issue here is a 3rd party providing a foo(1)
> documentation notwithstanding
> the fact that solaris foo(1) meets all standards is useless to the 3rd party
> if solaris foo(1) has non-standard extensions expected by solaris users

That's unfortunate - but IMO we should not make that ksh93/AST's burden.
I was simply wrong with my patch. IMO the AST builtins only need to
conform to POSIX, if anyone needs more in Solaris they have to turn off
the builtins first or address the Solaris-extened versions explicitly by
full path.

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Bye,
Roland

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