Re: Bugs in 3.1.2

[Bernd Eggink <eggink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(Zoltan T. Hidvegi) wrote:
> 
> Bernd Eggink wrote:
> > 2. 'select' still doesn't check its input correctly. As 'atoi' is used,
> > any string starting with a valid number is accepted. IMHO it would be
> > better to use 'strtol' instead and check the delimiting character. This
> 
> I did check this before the release and ksh93, pdksh and bash all have the
> same behaviour as zsh.  So four completely different shell with different
> source base has the same behaviour. 

I know, but as I told you some time ago, David Korn himself considers
this behaviour a bug... And why not do better than other shells?

Bernd

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