Re: Bug in test

2009-12-01 Thread Florian Lehmann
Now I understand. Thanks a lot for your help! Bob Proulx schrieb: Please take care to make sure the mailing list is included in your reply so that others may share in the discussion. You can do this by using the reply-to-mailing-list function. Or lacking that use reply-to-all. thanks for y

Re: Bug in test

2009-11-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Please take care to make sure the mailing list is included in your reply so that others may share in the discussion. You can do this by using the reply-to-mailing-list function. Or lacking that use reply-to-all. > thanks for your reply, I see your point. In this case, the manpage seems > to be

Re: Bug in test

2009-11-30 Thread Eric Blake
Bob Proulx proulx.com> writes: > Two points are of interest about your test --help question. One is > that unless you are careful you are getting the shell builtin test and > not the external standalone test program. In addition to Bob's excellent points, there is one more thing to consider: th

Re: Bug in test

2009-11-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Florian Lehmann wrote: > I recently recognised a missfunktion in coreutil test. When calling test > with option --help, test does not print anything and returns with > exit-code 0. Thanks for your report. But what you are seeing is not a bug in test but is instead simply a misunderstanding of