Re: Parameter expansion, patterns and fnmatch

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 02:03:28PM +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>>This also affects
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>    case [a in [?) echo ok ;; *) echo bad ;; esac
>
> We're talking about something that dash has had code to handle for
> >10 years, that's been documented by dash as supported for >10
> years, and now that it turns out there's a flaw in the code where
> dash does not behave as documented and as clearly intended by the
> code, it's POSIX's fault?

dash has never worked this way.  What's worse is that your patch
changes dash's behaviour in a way that is inconsistent with every
shell out there except bash.

Cheers,
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