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Date:      Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:26:05 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r220655 - head/tools/regression/bin/sh/expansion
Message-ID:  <201104151526.p3FFQ5oU073802@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: jilles
Date: Fri Apr 15 15:26:05 2011
New Revision: 220655
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/220655

Log:
  sh: Add test for obscure and ambiguous ${#?}.

Added:
  head/tools/regression/bin/sh/expansion/length4.0   (contents, props changed)

Added: head/tools/regression/bin/sh/expansion/length4.0
==============================================================================
--- /dev/null	00:00:00 1970	(empty, because file is newly added)
+++ head/tools/regression/bin/sh/expansion/length4.0	Fri Apr 15 15:26:05 2011	(r220655)
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# $FreeBSD$
+
+# The construct ${#?} is ambiguous in POSIX.1-2008: it could be the length
+# of $? or it could be $# giving an error in the (impossible) case that it
+# is not set.
+# We use the former interpretation; it seems more useful.
+
+:
+[ "${#?}" = 1 ] || echo '${#?} wrong'
+(exit 42)
+[ "${#?}" = 2 ] || echo '${#?} wrong'



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