On 10/15/12 8:33 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > (*) "Required" insofar as he wants bash to remain POSIX compliant.
Posix conformance has been a bash design criterion from its earliest days. There has to be a good reason to not conform, since not conforming implies a deliberate difference between bash and similar shells. Some reasons are good, some are not. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/