Dash has a serious bug which is causing grief.
The problem is that it overrides the system's test command (in
Debian, /usr/bin/test and /usr/bin/[) and does so in a way which is
inconsistent with the Debian versions.
Nothing in Posix permits this behavior, but it is tolerated by the
standard
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:16:44PM +, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Dash has a serious bug which is causing grief.
[ strip whining ]
Alas, dash does change the syntax of the command.
[ whine whine whine ]
What is that change please ? Last time I checked dash supported the
proper POSIX
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dash has a serious bug which is causing grief.
The problem is that it overrides the system's test command (in
Debian, /usr/bin/test and /usr/bin/[) and does so in a way which is
inconsistent with the Debian versions.
Onlookers should see
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 10:57 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dash has a serious bug which is causing grief.
The problem is that it overrides the system's test command (in
Debian, /usr/bin/test and /usr/bin/[) and does so in a way which is
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 19:58 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:16:44PM +, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Dash has a serious bug which is causing grief.
[ strip whining ]
Alas, dash does change the syntax of the command.
[ whine whine whine ]
What is
Pierre Habouzit wrote:
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:16:44PM +, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Dash has a serious bug which is causing grief.
[ strip whining ]
Alas, dash does change the syntax of the command.
[ whine whine whine ]
What is that change please ? Last time I checked
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:57:51PM +, Russ Allbery wrote:
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dash has a serious bug which is causing grief.
The problem is that it overrides the system's test command (in
Debian, /usr/bin/test and /usr/bin/[) and does so in a way which is
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 10:57 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dash has a serious bug which is causing grief.
The problem is that it overrides the system's test command (in
Debian, /usr/bin/test and /usr/bin/[) and does so in a way which is
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 07:29:28PM +, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
How come no-one even *bothered* to check.
For the google impaired, you can find the specification here:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/95399/utilities/test.html
And yes, I think it'd be a reasonable thing to ask our
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 11:26 -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
On Sun February 10 2008 10:16:44 Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Shells can override commands, but only if they don't play games with the
syntax.
Agreed. Within the Debian world, dash has redefined test rather
than building in test.
On Sun February 10 2008 15:54:36 Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Or to follow Colin's suggestion from the policy discussion a few years
ago, and grant a special exception, carefully crafted, for particular
shell builtins. I have no objection to that solution.
As a Debian user rather than a DD I
Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just replied to Thomas on the bug report including some information
that demonstrates that his arguments on dash not implementing some (at
least the one mentioned on the report) /usr/bin/test features is not
valid. For further reference please see
On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 19:36 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just replied to Thomas on the bug report including some information
that demonstrates that his arguments on dash not implementing some (at
least the one mentioned on the report)
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