bug in ksh?

Andrzej 'The Undefined' Dopierała undefine at aramin.net
Fri Jul 7 19:53:41 CEST 2006


On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 06:40:47PM +0200, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> > i think ksh behaviour is a bug...
> 
> Does POSIX/SUS specify what integer values should be supported?
> I can't find it now.
> 
> I assume that values larger than some value are allowed to give
> "undefined" results.
but it may confuse scripts who expect that it works "ok".  :/

zsh, csh, tcsh works like bash.

so - fix it, or leave?

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