Debian FTP Masters dixit: > * Add upstream proposed patch to close Debian bug 956245. (Closes: #956245)
Thanks (but please remember to also address this in stable). The patch itself is a bit inconsistent: - if ((UID != 0)); then + if (($(id -u) != 0)); then is used sometimes, which is an integer comparison, compared with the string comparison I suggested: - ((UID == 0)) && return + [[ $(id -u) = 0 ]] && return Note that the integer comparison can fail if id is not present or reports an error: $ bash -c '(( $(true) == 0 ))' bash: ((: == 0 : syntax error: operand expected (error token is "== 0 ") This is unlikely to happen, of course, so not a big issue, I just tend to write more reliable shell scripts. bye, //mirabilos -- FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was much *much* more bare bones. But it turns out it beats the living hell out of ksh93 in that respect. I'd even consider it for my daily use if I hadn't wasted half my life on my zsh setup. :-) -- Frank Terbeck in #!/bin/mksh
