Re: pkg/51142: pdksh has occasional issues with empty 'for' loops

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/51142; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/51142: pdksh has occasional issues with empty 'for' loops
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 17:13:46 +0700

     Date:        Mon, 16 May 2016 07:10:01 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        Richard PALO <richard.palo=40free.fr>
     Message-ID:  <20160516071001.CEF3F7AAB4=40mollari.NetBSD.org>
 
   =7C  does this look reasonable?
 
 I can't comment on the patch, as I don't know the code, but the
 result looks to be what is wanted.
 
 joerg=40bec.de said:
   =7C  Actually, you are looking at a too-new version.=20
 
 The problem with a lot of the older shell specs is that they were
 wildly wrong (did not say what they really intended).   Whether
 an implementation which adapted to what those seemed to require can
 be said to have bugs or not is just semantics - no-one is assigning
 blame here (or shouldn't be) just trying to get everything operating
 as it should.   And whether that =22word...=22 was actually intended to m=
 ean
 one more more words, or zero or more words doesn't really matter any
 more - anything that believed the 1 or more interpretation must now
 know that was incorrect, and should be fixed.
 
 kre