SOURCES: klibc-kill_bashism.patch (REMOVED) - last change

[Andrzej Krzysztofowicz]

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> On Friday 30 of September 2005 15:32, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> > On Friday 30 September 2005 16:24, pluto wrote:
> > > Author: pluto                        Date: Fri Sep 30 13:24:37 2005 GMT
> > > Module: SOURCES                       Tag: HEAD
> > > ---- Log message:
> > > - last change reverted. this is not a bashism. ksh bug?
> > >   testcase:
> > >    echo '[ "foo" = "bar" -a "-u" = "zoo" ]'|/bin/sh
> > >    /bin/sh: <stdin>[1]: [: zoo: unexpected operator/operand
> >
> > man test:
> >        -u FILE
> >               FILE exists and its set-user-ID bit is set
> [ is builting feature in shells so man test isn't adequate here.
> 
> > alternatives:
> > echo '[ "foo" = "bar" ] && [ "-u" = "zoo" ]'|/bin/sh
> > echo '[ "foo" = "bar" -a x"-u" = x"zoo" ]'|/bin/sh
> 
> The original test should work since "" is posix quoting and it should quote 
> -u, too I guess.
> 
> bash, zsh work well with the original test. ksh doesn't not, sounds like ksh 
> bug.

Or feature.
Probably if the first string after "[" starts with "-" it is treated as a "["
(test) command option...

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