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Re: false --help vs. false --version
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: false --help vs. false --version |
Date: |
02 Apr 2003 16:46:18 -0800 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
I love poking sticks into hornets' nests, so I can't resist mentioning
that coreutils "true" sometimes returns false:
$ ./true --version >&-
./true: write error: Bad file number
$ echo $?
1
This is not a POSIX conformance issue, since "true" always returns
true if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set; still, perhaps true's exit-status
behavior should either be documented (if it's what's desired) or
changed (if not).
- false --help vs. false --version, Paul Jarc, 2003/04/02
- Re: false --help vs. false --version, Bob Proulx, 2003/04/02
- Re: false --help vs. false --version, Jim Meyering, 2003/04/02
- Re: false --help vs. false --version,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: false --help vs. false --version, Jim Meyering, 2003/04/03
- Re: false --help vs. false --version, Paul Jarc, 2003/04/03
- Re: false --help vs. false --version, Jim Meyering, 2003/04/03
- Re: false --help vs. false --version, Paul Jarc, 2003/04/03
- Re: false --help vs. false --version, Jim Meyering, 2003/04/03