Joerg Schilling <joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote, on 02 Nov 2016:
>
> Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chaze...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Has ksh93 ever been certified as a POSIX conformant shell?
> > Actually, have any other shell than ksh88 and bash been
> > certified?

As far as I'm aware all of the certified UNIX systems use either
ksh88 or bash as their standard sh.

> Has bash really been certified? Isn't macos certified with the 
> non-POSIX-compliant bash-3.x?

It passes the test suite.  I believe Apple use some non-default
compile time options to make it conform.  Perhaps they have also
backported some patches from later versions.

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