Re: REGRESSION: shellshock patch rejects valid function names

[Stephane Chazelas]

2014-09-29 09:04:00 -0600, Eric Blake:
[...]
> I would expect something like "It shall be an error if fname is the name
> of a special built-in utility", as _that_ would be a hard requirement on
> bash, not just the application.  Maybe we have a bug in the POSIX spec
> for a missing requirement.
[...]

Such a requirement would break bash, zsh, mksh, AT&T ksh (for
disciplines), which currently all allow a function called "a.b"

Cheers,
Stephane