On Fri Sep 27 2013 Chris Down wrote: > Well, they're directly part of the POSIX spec. I'm not sure there's a > need to reiterate absolutely everything that is already required by > POSIX.
Well, the question is whether the info manual should provide a self-contained documentation or whether it should start with the warning: This documentation assumes the user to be familiar with the POSIX spec. I never looked into the POSIX spec. I learned bash only from its info pages.