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Date:      Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:39:51 +0400
From:      Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
To:        Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/test test.1
Message-ID:  <20060728123950.GE16454@comp.chem.msu.su>
In-Reply-To: <20060727200602.GA99525@nagual.pp.ru>
References:  <200607271908.k6RJ8Los011463@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060727200602.GA99525@nagual.pp.ru>

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On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 12:06:02AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 07:08:21PM +0000, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> > yar         2006-07-27 19:08:21 UTC
> > 
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     bin/test             test.1 
> >   Log:
> >   Document that both sides of -a or -o are always evaluated.  This
> >   "feature" doesn't seem to be in the standards or elsewhere, and
> >   it is against what we are used to in C and sh(1), so put the
> >   paragraph under BUGS.
> 
> We should examine what POSIX or POSIX test suits says here, if any.

The SUSv3 text says nothing on this.  It can be hard to test this
because in a traditional system (no filesystem-level audit or
whatever,) test(1) operators effectively change nothing--hence the
name.  The world is changing though.

-- 
Yar



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