On 11/9/18 11:46 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/9/18 10:42 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>
>>
>>> A diagnostic message shall be written to standard error whenever an
>>> error condition occurs."
>>>
>>> Since 'shift 2' when $# is 1 is an error, and results in non-zero status,
>>> it should print a
On 11/9/18 10:42 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
A diagnostic message shall be written to standard error whenever an
error condition occurs."
Since 'shift 2' when $# is 1 is an error, and results in non-zero status,
it should print a diagnostic to stderr.
So maybe the thing to do is to turn on
On 11/9/18 11:22 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/9/18 8:52 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> On 11/9/18 9:47 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>>
>>> Well, there's STILL a conformance issue - the standard requires that unless
>>> documented otherwise, any time a command line tool exits with non-zero
>>> status, that it
On 11/9/18 8:52 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
On 11/9/18 9:47 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
Well, there's STILL a conformance issue - the standard requires that unless
documented otherwise, any time a command line tool exits with non-zero
status, that it outputs a message to stderr explaining the error.
On 11/9/18 9:47 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Well, there's STILL a conformance issue - the standard requires that unless
> documented otherwise, any time a command line tool exits with non-zero
> status, that it outputs a message to stderr explaining the error.
Where?
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On 11/8/18 6:03 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
On 11/8/18 3:37 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
If I'm reading POSIX correctly, shift is a special built-in utility, and if
'$#' is 0 or 1, then 'shift 2' counts as a utility error that shall exit
the shell, per the table in 2.8.1 Consequences of Shell Errors:
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 3:48 PM Eric Blake wrote:
> If the n operand is invalid or is greater than "$#", this may be
> considered a syntax error and a non-interactive shell may exit; if the
> shell does not exit in this case, a non-zero exit status shall be
> returned.
This seems to say that
On 11/8/18 3:37 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> If I'm reading POSIX correctly, shift is a special built-in utility, and if
> '$#' is 0 or 1, then 'shift 2' counts as a utility error that shall exit
> the shell, per the table in 2.8.1 Consequences of Shell Errors:
>
>
