posix me harder
Martin Pool
mbp at samba.org
Wed Mar 13 22:38:09 GMT 2002
People might find this entertaining and/or useful:
http://www.gnu.org/manual/autoconf-2.52/html_chapter/autoconf_10.html
With the help of Jos Backus I just discovered the answer to
http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync-cvs/2002-January/001271.html
is that Sun's test(1) is breathtakingly broken when passed a dangling
symlink:
$ ln -s /nowhere bad
$ ls -l bad
lrwxrwxrwx 1 josb user 8 Mar 13 20:10 bad -> /nowhere
$ if test -L bad; then echo bad; fi
test: argument expected
$ if test -h bad; then echo bad; fi
bad
$
--
Martin
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