Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 07:46:44 -0700 From: James William Pye <flaw@rhid.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Standards <freebsd-standards@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /bin/test asdf -ge 0 Message-ID: <1094654804.85018.94.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200409071845.i87IjAu6099894@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <1094566670.80264.78.camel@localhost> <20040907163809.M20166@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> <200409071845.i87IjAu6099894@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 11:45, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> I agree. I believe that an interpretation request would receive the
> "the standard is silent and no conformance distinction can be made"
> (and therefore FreeBSD's implementation is not incorrect). It's
> instructive to contrast the description of expr(1), where the standard
> makes it very clear what constitutes a number.
I think that you are likely to be correct here. Perhaps I will send a
clarification request noting the constrast you mentioned between test(1)
and expr(1) to the OpenGroup list Harti referred to. I think I will also
mention arithmetic expansion, as I think the issue exists there as well.
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Regards,
James William Pye
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