cvs commit: src/bin/test test.1
Yar Tikhiy
yar at comp.chem.msu.su
Thu Jul 27 20:36:26 UTC 2006
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 12:08:02AM +0400, 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.
test(1) has quite a job to do by itself, e.g., to invoke stat(2)
and access(2) on the files. I didn't mean pre-parsing by the shell
at all.
--
Yar
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