then if nobody has cared up til now I doubt I will have much chance of making a difference on that. thx for the correction. I will mention it, but will not be holding my breath. Michael On Jun 14, 2014 7:28 PM, "Paul Eggert" wrote: > Michael Felt wrote: > >> this is a standard with 2008 in it's name, and >> AIX 5.3 is from 2004 >> > > AIX 5.3 is no longer supported, so I wouldn't bother filing a bug for it. > I was thinking about AIX 7.1, which has the same problem; if you want to > be a POSIX nerd you can file a bug report against it. > > That part of POSIX has been standardized since POSIX.2 (IEEE Std > 1003.2-1992), and the wording hasn't changed since then if I recall > correctly, so AIX has had this conformance bug for decades and nobody has > cared.... >