On 23/02/2016 20:33, Eric Blake wrote:
exit - fuzzy. exit is a special built-in (unlike getopts); and XCU 2.14
states:
"Some of the special built-ins are described as conforming to XBD
Utility Syntax Guidelines. For those that are not, the requirement in
Utility Description Defaults that "--" be recognized as a first argument
to be discarded does not apply and a conforming application shall not
use that argument. "
Conforming apps cannot expect 'exit -1' to work, and therefore, cannot
also expect 'exit -- -1' to work, since the only standards-defined
values for an argument to exit is a non-negative decimal integer less
than 256. Of course, if you want to fix it along with all the others,
that's fine; I'm just pointing out that 'exit' isn't broken as-is.
I was under the impression that the intent from the dash side was to
handle all commands the same, and that impression was based on the fact
that the . command has received additional code to handle -- even though
there's no requirement for that. However, looking into the original bug
report that prompted that change in more detail I see that the standard
will very likely require support for -- in the . command in the future,
so that doesn't hold up.
If that intent isn't there (I'm not saying it's not; I'm unsure now),
the list of utilities that should be extended is far smaller, if I'm not
overlooking anything:
- alias
- getopts
- type
- exec?
- local?
exec is like .: there's currently no requirement to support --, but that
requirement is likely to come in the future.
local is currently non-standard and it's hard to guess whether it will
require support for -- if standardised.
Cheers,
Harald van Dijk
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