Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 10:31:39 +0400 From: Wartan Hachaturow <wartan.hachaturow@gmail.com> To: James William Pye <flaw@rhid.com> Cc: FreeBSD Standards <freebsd-standards@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /bin/test asdf -ge 0 Message-ID: <4aaa2e1c0409082331317e70e0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1094566670.80264.78.camel@localhost> References: <1094566670.80264.78.camel@localhost>
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On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 07:17:51 -0700, James William Pye <flaw@rhid.com> wrote: > I am curious if anyone knows if this behavior conforms to a > specification. Personally, I find FreeBSD's behavior "correct", so I > find the implementation differences disturbing. If it is conforming to a > specification, I think it would be possible to convince some developers > to change their implementations, which would be a good thing(tm). When I've been writing arithmetic evaluation in our /bin/sh, I haven't found any signs of "standard convsersion" in SUS, so I used strtol() with a couple of checks, which I assumed to be most logical in this case. Perhaps, aardvark for the clarification might be good, yes. -- Regards, Wartan.
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