Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 01:13:24 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@queasyweasel.com> To: Mark Valentine <mark@valentine.me.uk> Cc: wollman@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's up with /usr/src/usr.bin/alias? Message-ID: <0613FBAF-6CF3-11D8-9000-000393BB9222@queasyweasel.com> In-Reply-To: <200403030905.i2395NQk024164@dotar.thuvia.org> References: <200403030905.i2395NQk024164@dotar.thuvia.org>
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--Apple-Mail-18--933727183 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Mar 3, 2004, at 1:05 AM, Mark Valentine wrote: > What exactly is the test suite testing? SUSv3 has this to say in an > informative section: > > "The jobs utility does not work as expected when it is operating > in its own utility execution environment because that environment > has no applicable jobs to manipulate. See the APPLICATION USAGE > section for bg . For this reason, jobs is generally implemented > as a shell regular built-in." > > So it looks like the examples you tried conform just fine. > > There are similar paragraphs for cd and so on. Hmmm! That's interesting... We may have something misconfigured in the conformance test suite which is causing it to flag these. I hadn't read that "informative section" before, but clearly I need to go back and do more research into this. Perhaps we're just missing a DONTBESOANAL environment variable setting. I'll look into this some more, thanks. -- Jordan K. Hubbard Engineering Manager, BSD technology group Apple Computer --Apple-Mail-18--933727183--
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