On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Kevin Waterson wrote:
> Why is bash2 not the default for rh 6.1
Compatibility issues.
bash 2.x is somewhat more strict about POSIX compliance, for example
{ ls }
used to work in 1.x, but 2.x forces strict POSIX, so it has to be
{ ls; }
Since a lot of older shell scripts depend on bash 1 brokenness, we decided
to stick with 1.x for now.
> Is there plans to implement this at a further date
Yes. 7.0, probably.
LLaP
bero
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