svn commit: r209772 - head/usr.bin/getopt

[Anonymous]

Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Anonymous <swell.k at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>
>>> On 7/7/2010 10:44 AM, Benedict Reuschling wrote:
>>>> Author: bcr (doc committer)
>>>
>>>> -for i
>>>> +while true;
>>>>  do
>>>
>>> If this is intended to be an sh scripting example a better way to write
>>> that is:
>>>
>>> while : ;
>>>
>>> You can't guarantee that "true" will always be available and do what you
>>> expect, whereas the ':' operator is a shell builtin.
>>
>> Isn't `true' shell builtin as well?
>>
>>  $ type true
>>  true is a shell builtin
>
> `true' is the new way. `:' is the old Bourne way as I've been told
> (but you're right, it is a built-in now as of at least 7.1 -- not sure
> about 6.x though)...

I see `true' uncommented in builtins.def going all the way back to
Ash as it was posted on Usenet in 1989.