Re: Somewhat off-topic, but hard to find better portability people.

[Peter Seebach]

In message <address@hidden>, "James 
Youngman" writes:
>On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Peter Seebach <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> set -- args
>
>Hmm, I certainly have a habit of doing this instead:
>
>set x blablablablabla
>shift
>
>However, the only source file I can find that still does this was
>written in 2002.   My guess is that I have used a system where this
>didn't work, but not for a long time.  If I had to guess at a system
>that might have a problem with the -- form, it would be either an old
>Sun box (which you already indicated you would not be interested in)
>or perhaps Sequent DYNIX/ptx 4.x.   While DYNIX/ptx 4.x did get y2k
>patches, I still don't think it is a worthwhile porting target so I'd
>not recommend trying to bother verifying the allegation I just made
>anyway...

The one thing I found is that SVR4 shell doesn't clear $* on 'set --'.  It
does reset it completely on 'set -- foo'.  So I documented that.

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