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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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To: Toshihiro Kanda <candy@fct.kgc.co.jp>
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Subject: test(1) -h behavior (bug??)
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Already fixed.

test.c
revision 1.12
date: 1995/10/28 11:54:42;  author: ache;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Fix -h option:
sense symlink even it is unresolved


Toshihiro Kanda writes:
>  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)