On Saturday 05 December 2009 16:49:19 Matt Kraai wrote: > Hi, Hello,
> According to > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/test.html > > -nt and -ot were from the KornShell. According to the KornShell > documentation at > > http://www2.research.att.com/sw/download/man/man1/ksh.html > > file1 -nt file2 > True, if file1 exists and file2 does not, or file1 is newer than file2. > file1 -ot file2 > True, if file2 exists and file1 does not, or file1 is older than file2. > > The attached patch should make dash follow this behavior. This is probably just an oversight, but it does not; this part: + (stat (f2, &b2) != 0 && + b1.st_mtime < b2.st_mtime)); should in fact be + (stat (f2, &b2) != 0 || + b1.st_mtime < b2.st_mtime)); Also, stat can fail in other cases than a nonexistent file (eg. EACCESS ) which should be taken care of... Regards Jiri Palecek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
