posix me harder

Andy Thomas ajt at icd.cc.purdue.edu
Thu Mar 14 08:27:02 GMT 2002


It is broken in Solaris 8 also:

## /bin/sh
# uname -rsv
SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-13
# ls -l bad  
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           8 Mar 14 11:06 bad -> /nowhere
# if test -L bad; then echo bad; fi
test: argument expected

Andrew Thomas
Instructional Computing Services - Purdue University

> 	Fixed, in Solaris 8, but broken in
> 	at least 2.6 and possibly 7.
> 
> elsbeth> ln -s /nowhere bad
> you have mail in /var/mail/davecb
> elsbeth> ls -l bad
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 davecb   staff          8 Mar 14  2002 bad -> /nowhere
> elsbeth> if test -L bad; then echo bad; fi
> bad
> elsbeth> if test -h bad; then echo bad; fi
> bad






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