Date:Fri, 16 Apr 2021 09:43:25 +0100
From:"Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group"
Message-ID: <20210416084325.GA32494@localhost>
| It would be best to submit a new bug against D1.1.
OK, will submit one when I am back at my
laptop rather than phone...
Robert Elz wrote, on 16 Apr 2021:
>
> Austin Group Defect 1272 is applied, clarifying that the null utility
>does not expand its arguments,
>does not recognize the "--" end-of-options delimiter,
>does not support any options,
>and does not write to standard error.
>
I just noticed (you really don't want to know the chain of
thought that got me here!) that when bug 1272 was applied,
some non-ideal language was added in the CHANGE HISTORY section
for Issue 8. (This is in XCU 2.14, Special Built-in Utilities
("colon") on page 2316 of draft 1.1 of issue 8)