bin/125855: sh(1) allows for multiline, non-escaped control structures (and thus isn't POSIX compliant)

[Garrett Cooper]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
> Actually I think that both bash's and sh's behaviour is
> correct.  As far as I can see in the refrenced standard
> sections, there is no requirement that there must be no
> newline character after the reserved word "!".  It seems
> to be unspecified.
>
> FWIW, Solaris' POSIX shell (/bin/ksh and /usr/xpg4/bin/sh)
> allows a newline character, so it behaves the same as our
> /bin/sh.  (Note that Solaris' /bin/sh is intentionally not
> a POSIX shell, it doesn't know "!" at all.)
>
> Best regards
>   Oliver

Oliver,
     Ok. That's what I thought when I was reading the OpenGroup spec
again. It's a bit confusing because I think this is a gray area...
     I'll see what the POSIX folks say.
Thanks,
-Garrett