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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001725 | 1003.1(2016/18)/Issue7+TC2 | Shell and Utilities | public | 2023-05-09 22:16 | 2024-06-11 09:07 |
| Reporter | steffen | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | Editorial | Type | Clarification Requested |
| Status | Closed | Resolution | Accepted | ||
| Name | steffen | ||||
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| Section | mailx | ||||
| Page Number | 3086 | ||||
| Line Number | 103809 | ||||
| Interp Status | --- | ||||
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| Summary | 0001725: mailx: *screen*: specify default | ||||
| Description | This variable is exceptionally not given a default. | ||||
| Desired Action | Note: page and line number are for 202x/D3, March 2023. On page 3086, line 103809, change of these shall be used. to of these shall be used. The default shall be noscreen. | ||||
| Tags | applied_after_i8d3, tc3-2008 | ||||
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The value of screen is numeric, and the standard includes a statement about what value is used when screen has not been specified. (The statement ends with the words "of these shall be used" that are quoted in the desired action.) |
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Yes, it does say what default should be used, but it does not say that this is the actual default. But all looked-at implementations do not set it by default. So as POSIX specifies whether or not a variable is set by default it should definitely do this for *screen*, too. (Reminder that for mailx "set noXY" equals "unset XY", "set noscreen" is thus identically to specify the variable is not set. So "shall be noscreen" means the variable is not set by default, and the default algorithm shall kick in. Which is what implementations do.) |
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Okay, I see your point now, and I notice that crt (which is also numeric) has "The default shall be nocrt". So I'm fine with adding an equivalent statement for screen. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2023-05-09 22:16 | steffen | New Issue | |
| 2023-05-09 22:16 | steffen | Name | => steffen |
| 2023-05-09 22:16 | steffen | Section | => mailx |
| 2023-05-09 22:16 | steffen | Page Number | => 3086 |
| 2023-05-09 22:16 | steffen | Line Number | => 103809 |
| 2023-05-11 11:11 | geoffclare | Note Added: 0006279 | |
| 2023-05-11 15:58 | steffen | Note Added: 0006280 | |
| 2023-05-11 16:45 | geoffclare | Note Added: 0006283 | |
| 2023-05-11 16:46 | geoffclare | Note Edited: 0006279 | |
| 2023-07-31 15:51 | Don Cragun | Interp Status | => --- |
| 2023-07-31 15:51 | Don Cragun | Status | New => Resolved |
| 2023-07-31 15:51 | Don Cragun | Resolution | Open => Accepted |
| 2023-07-31 15:52 | Don Cragun | Tag Attached: tc3-2008 | |
| 2023-08-17 10:55 | geoffclare | Status | Resolved => Applied |
| 2023-08-17 10:56 | geoffclare | Tag Attached: applied_after_i8d3 | |
| 2024-06-11 09:07 | agadmin | Status | Applied => Closed |
