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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