Nasty bug in release 4 Bourne shell

[Andy Crump]

>>>>> On 2 Jan 91 10:08:41 GMT, tneff at bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) said:

Tom> In article <ANDYC.91Jan2085324 at bucky.intel.com> andyc at bucky.intel.com (Andy Crump) writes:
>The bug exists in AT&T's latest version of SVR4.  The problem has been
>submitted to them to be fixed.

Tom> Andy, does "AT&T's latest version" in the above quote mean Version 2.0?
Tom> Or something later still, aka the "production release" we're awaiting?

This "latest version" referred to is post version 2.0 and not in
production yet.  

Tom> In other words, is this Bourne bug confined to the developer releases or
Tom> will there have to be a *second* production release before it's fixed?

Maybe, it depends whether it gets fixed before USL lets it go.  It has
been reported to them.  That is all the info I have right now.
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