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Subject: Re: /bin/test asdf -ge 0
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On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, James William Pye wrote:

JWP>On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 11:45, Garrett Wollman wrote:
JWP>> I agree.  I believe that an interpretation request would receive the
JWP>> "the standard is silent and no conformance distinction can be made"
JWP>> (and therefore FreeBSD's implementation is not incorrect). It's
JWP>> instructive to contrast the description of expr(1), where the standard
JWP>> makes it very clear what constitutes a number.
JWP>
JWP>I think that you are likely to be correct here. Perhaps I will send a
JWP>clarification request noting the constrast you mentioned between test(1)
JWP>and expr(1) to the OpenGroup list Harti referred to. I think I will also
JWP>mention arithmetic expansion, as I think the issue exists there as well.

If you want to place an official request there is also a web interface I 
think.

harti