People keep having trouble with the ! syntax for negation, because of the !-history feature in some shells (notably, enabled by default in bash in all distros).
The result is that attempts to deallocate hosts, or do some other things, produces an incomprensible "event not found" message. I don't suffer from this because I have it turned off, with set -H. IMO it should be off by default. (This is Debian #897422.) Avoid this whole problem by using ^ everywhere we previously used ! for negation. (We continue to honour !.) Places where ! is still the necessary syntactic character to do something in osstest are: * In the ms-queuedaemon protocol, ! is used to indicate an unsolicited response. * In sg-run-job, ! in an IFFAIL means to run a step even if the job has failed or is being truncated. These go nowhere near a shell and are not, conceptually, negation. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
