Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 16:55:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt <harti@freebsd.org> To: James William Pye <flaw@rhid.com> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Subject: Re: /bin/test asdf -ge 0 Message-ID: <20040908165429.F23565@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> In-Reply-To: <1094654804.85018.94.camel@localhost> References: <1094566670.80264.78.camel@localhost> <20040907163809.M20166@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> <1094654804.85018.94.camel@localhost>
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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
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