On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:57:51PM +0000, Russ Allbery wrote: > Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> writes: > > > Dash has a serious bug which is causing grief. > > > > The problem is that it overrides the system's "test" command (in > > Debian, /usr/bin/test and /usr/bin/[) and does so in a way which is > > inconsistent with the Debian versions. > > Onlookers should see http://bugs.debian.org/267142 for the long history of > the previous discussions of this. $ dash -c 'test a = a -a b = b ; echo $?; [ a != a -o a = b ]; echo $?' 0 1 WTF is going on please ? -a and -o are prefectly supported (at least in the unstable's dash) And FWIW in the last POSIX copy I own, in the shell and utilities document: * test -a * test -o * test ( ) are XSI (X/Open System Interfaces) optional features, that unlike what Thomas pretend are properly documented. I agree we would like those XSI extensions to be implemented in our /bin/sh shells. But AFAICT dash complies, even for the () grouping: $ dash -c 'test \( a = a -o b = 1 \) -a c = c ; echo $?' 0 How come no-one even *bothered* to check. I have my plate full with whiners. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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