Re: bug in sh, probably, with test case

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 02:00:11AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <50D4B5BF.4000503%bbn.com@localhost>, Richard Hansen  
> <rhansen%bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
> >On 2012-12-21 05:21, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> >
> >I'd argue that the shell scripts themselves are broken. :)
> >DASH is merely conforming to the POSIX standard, as it should.
> 
> I don't know. Shells are complex beasts. I am pretty sure that dash still
> has bugs.

At least as it seems to be in the version of Debian I use, it lacks many
useful features for interactive use, like history and editing.  If it
started its life as our shell, I cannot see why those features would
have been taken out.

Thor