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Subject: test(1) -h behavior (bug??)
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Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 14:47:13 +0900
From: Toshihiro Kanda <candy@fct.kgc.co.jp>
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  If a symbolic link file ``foo'' points non-existence file, should
``/bin/test foo'' return 0 or 1?

  In FreeBSD 2.1R, /bin/test returns 1.  While built-in command `test'
of `GNU bash, version 1.14.2(1)' returns 0.

  bash$ ln -s nofile foo
  bash$ /bin/test -h foo ; echo $?
  1
  bash$ test -h foo ; echo $?
  0

  I've tested `SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4c', `NetBSD 1.1 sparc' and `IRIX64
6.2 IP19'.  Then all these /bin/test returned 0.

candy@fct.kgc.co.jp (Toshihiro Kanda)