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" <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> 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....