Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I love poking sticks into hornets' nests, so I can't resist mentioning > that coreutils "true" sometimes returns false:
:-) > $ ./true --version >&- > ./true: write error: Bad file number > $ echo $? > 1 > > This is not a POSIX conformance issue, since "true" always returns > true if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set; still, perhaps true's exit-status > behavior should either be documented (if it's what's desired) or > changed (if not). Thanks for finding that. I'm inclined to leave the behavior as it is and document that `true --version' can fail. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
