cvs commit: src/bin/test test.1
Yar Tikhiy
yar at comp.chem.msu.su
Fri Jul 28 12:39:55 UTC 2006
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.
The SUSv3 text says nothing on this. It can be hard to test this
because in a traditional system (no filesystem-level audit or
whatever,) test(1) operators effectively change nothing--hence the
name. The world is changing though.
--
Yar
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