Re: Engaging folks( Re: slashdot feedback on the TR) (fwd)

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The discussion of standardizing shell features may be heating up again
soon, or perhaps it _ought_ to be heated up ...

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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:08:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Korn <dgk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Engaging folks( Re: slashdot feedback on the TR)
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Subject: Re: Engaging folks( Re: slashdot feedback on the TR)
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> Speaking as the Chair of The Open Group Base Working group , I can say
> that there is work in progress on some future directions but they are not
> yet complete or ready -- perhaps I (as Austin Group chair:-) should 
> establish  a futures discussion list as a separate discussion reflector 
> for areas outside the present standard -- its outside the main scope  
> 
> Folks should contact me directly if you want to see a preview
> draft of additional apis I am working on and more information.  
> asprintf is on my list to consider, I need some help in drawing up
> a manual page on that and several other APIs.
> regards
> Andrew
> 
> 

I have a list of features that common to ksh, zsh and bash
that should probably be standardized in some future version
of the standard.

David Korn
dgk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx