Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:29:10 +0100 From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r219084 - in head: bin/test tools/regression/bin/test Message-ID: <20110227142910.GA13518@britannica.bec.de> In-Reply-To: <20110227141143.GA11874@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <201102271228.p1RCS6qG087131@svn.freebsd.org> <20110227123058.GA9092@britannica.bec.de> <20110227141143.GA11874@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 03:11:43PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 01:30:58PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:28:06PM +0000, Xin LI wrote: > > > Author: delphij > > > Date: Sun Feb 27 12:28:06 2011 > > > New Revision: 219084 > > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/219084 > > > > > > Log: > > > Accept == as an alias of = which is a popular GNU extension. > > > > It is not a popular GNU extension. It is crap only bash supports. > > Do you really want to encourage that? > > In what way is it 'crap', and in what way would adding support for it > be a problem? It is completely redundant and inconsistent with pretty much every other test(1) implementation. E.g. it isn't even supported by /bin/test from coretutils. The very presence of this in various shell scripts is a direct result of silently accepting it in bash, even in sh mode. This is just further encouragement to legalize it. Joerghelp
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