On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 12:06:02AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 07:08:21PM +0000, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> > yar         2006-07-27 19:08:21 UTC
> > 
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     bin/test             test.1 
> >   Log:
> >   Document that both sides of -a or -o are always evaluated.  This
> >   "feature" doesn't seem to be in the standards or elsewhere, and
> >   it is against what we are used to in C and sh(1), so put the
> >   paragraph under BUGS.
> 
> We should examine what POSIX or POSIX test suits says here, if any.

The SUSv3 text says nothing on this.  It can be hard to test this
because in a traditional system (no filesystem-level audit or
whatever,) test(1) operators effectively change nothing--hence the
name.  The world is changing though.

-- 
Yar
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