Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: sed-4.4.104-290c

2018-03-27 Thread Jim Meyering
On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 6:38 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 03/27/2018 05:27 PM, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: >> >> test=${1##*/} >> >> I would strongly urge removal of such shell extensions. > > That syntax has been standard ever since POSIX formalized the shell in IEEE >

Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: sed-4.4.104-290c

2018-03-27 Thread Paul Eggert
On 03/27/2018 05:27 PM, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: test=${1##*/} I would strongly urge removal of such shell extensions. That syntax has been standard ever since POSIX formalized the shell in IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (I just pulled out my trusty printed copy and checked). It's a bit of a

[PATCH] time_rz: work around Mac OS X 10.6 infloop

2018-03-27 Thread Paul Eggert
* doc/posix-functions/localtime.texi: * doc/posix-functions/localtime_r.texi: Mention the bug. * lib/time_rz.c (localtime_rz): Work around the bug. It’d be better to fix localtime and localtime_r instead, but that would be more work and is not needed to fix the Emacs problem. * m4/time_rz.m4