Why does MirBSD of the Korn Shell interpret the numbers with leading zero as octal in RHEL6.4?
Issue
- In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4,
mkshinterprets the numbers that begin with a Zero as an octal number. - The upstream version of
mkshhas normal behavior onkornshell. - 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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