Re: handling of test == by BASH's POSIX mode

[Andreas Schwab]

Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> writes:

> As it stands, I can't use bash's POSIX mode to verify the validity or
> otherwise of a POSIX script because bash won't report these kinds of
> errors - even when running in POSIX mode.

You can't do that anyway: POSIX mode does not disable proper extensions
to POSIX, only those that conflict with POSIX.  Specifically, in the
case of the test utility, POSIX makes the behaviour unspecified when a
three argument invocation does not match the POSIX-defined binary
operators.

> There is an --enable-strict-posix (?) configuration option. Will this do
> what I expect?

That just switches the default for POSIX mode.

Andreas.

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