Author: jilles Date: Fri Nov 7 21:30:16 2014 New Revision: 274254 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/274254
Log: sh(1): Mention portability issue with shifting zero positional parameters. Per Austin Group issue #459, shifting zero positional parameters may or may not be considered an operand error (which causes the shell to exit in most cases). Modified: head/bin/sh/sh.1 Modified: head/bin/sh/sh.1 ============================================================================== --- head/bin/sh/sh.1 Fri Nov 7 20:42:15 2014 (r274253) +++ head/bin/sh/sh.1 Fri Nov 7 21:30:16 2014 (r274254) @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ .\" from: @(#)sh.1 8.6 (Berkeley) 5/4/95 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd September 21, 2014 +.Dd November 7, 2014 .Dt SH 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -2522,7 +2522,8 @@ and so on, decreasing the value of .Li $# by one. -If there are zero positional parameters, shifting does not do anything. +For portability, shifting if there are zero positional parameters +should be avoided, since the shell may abort. .It Ic test A built-in equivalent of .Xr test 1 . _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
