Why does MirBSD of the Korn Shell interpret the numbers with leading zero as octal in RHEL6.4?

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Issue

  • In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4, mksh interprets the numbers that begin with a Zero as an octal number.
  • The upstream version of mksh has normal behavior on korn shell.
  • Why does MirBSD of the Korn Shell interpret the numbers with leading zero as octal in RHEL6.4?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
  • mksh

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