cvs commit: src/bin/test test.1

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Jul 27 20:30:39 UTC 2006


On Thursday 27 July 2006 16:08, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> 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.
> 
> I mean, in the sh(1), not in the test(1) which is command line and nothing 
> can be done here due to pre-parsed args.

I think it would be really, really odd to have [ behave differently for 
different sh(1) implementations depending on whether or not [ is a built-in 
or not.  The only sane thing there seems to be to have the behaviors be 
identical.

-- 
John Baldwin


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