ash Posix standards

[Pietro Paolini]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 09:07:27AM +0000, Pietro Paolini wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I really would like have a reference for the ash shell provided in the busybox package, reading the README inside
> the shell/ folder I can see :
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
> Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7
>
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap01.html
> Shell & Utilities
>
> [..]
>
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html
> [..]
>
> Is then ash compliant to those ?

>It's intended to be, as long as CONFIG_ASH_BASH_COMPAT is not selected
>at build time. Turning on that option alters the shell grammar to be
>non-conforming to POSIX. In particular, &> gets interpreted as one
>token instead of two.

>Rich


Thanks for your answer, do you think the best way I could take to have the details about this options is to dig into the source code or does a doc exit for that ?