Jim Meyering wrote: > I'm wondering if this test is inherently racy Indeed, it fails with various programs: sum, pr, sha512sum, base64, expand, base64, tsort, tail, cat, ...
> perhaps depending on which version of Perl itself It says "This is perl, v5.8.8 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level" Bruno -- In memoriam Joseph Lee Heywood <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lee_Heywood>