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bug#23090: true and false not POSIX
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Eric Blake |
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bug#23090: true and false not POSIX |
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Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:56:58 -0600 |
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On 03/22/2016 12:35 PM, Ruediger Meier wrote:
>>> I suggest an enhancement for portability and implementation
>>> simplicity to remove the options --version and --help from true,
>>> false echo and [.
>>
>> Sorry, but that would violate GNU Coding Standards, so we aren't
>> going to do it.
>
> So then test --help is a coreutils bug because it does not respect GNU
> Coding Standard? As already said the exit codes are for sure not
> GNU-style too.
No, 'test --help' is a special case where we follow the POSIX rules
always, because we have '[ --help' in its place for when we want to
expose the GNU capabilities of the same .c file.
>
> What about changing GNU Coding Standards to allow to break them if they
> don't make any sense like in this case?
You're welcome to propose a change to the standards; but they are not
maintained on this list; see address@hidden If you get that
change approved by rms, then we'll adjust coreutils to match. But rms
will probably ask for the coreutils' maintainers' opinion before
approving such a change, so it will be an uphill battle on your side.
--
Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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bug#23090: true and false not POSIX, Eric Blake, 2016/03/22
- bug#23090: true and false not POSIX, Eric Blake, 2016/03/22
- bug#23090: true and false not POSIX, Ruediger Meier, 2016/03/22
- bug#23090: true and false not POSIX, Eric Blake, 2016/03/22
- bug#23090: true and false not POSIX, Ruediger Meier, 2016/03/22
- bug#23090: true and false not POSIX, Eric Blake, 2016/03/22
- bug#23090: true and false not POSIX, Ruediger Meier, 2016/03/22
- bug#23090: true and false not POSIX,
Eric Blake <=
- bug#23090: true and false not POSIX, Bernhard Voelker, 2016/03/22