On 03/24/2010 02:40 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
No big deal, but I saw recent additions of "test ... -a ..." (not portable) so fixed the rest, too.
Now, searching for violations shows none:
git grep '\<test .* -a '
Better would be git grep '\<test .* -[ao] '
Whether it's possible to rely on test -a in test scripts is debatable: perhaps you've ensured that the SHELL you use when running tests is POSIX compliant or better (I do that in coreutils),
But test -a is optional - POSIX says it is only required by XSI extensions, and some shells (think posh) go so far as to explicitly reject all optional POSIX constructs. (Not that I know anyone crazy enough to choose posh instead of dash as their /bin/sh, but still...)
Since this is a global change, it deserves a syntax-check rule.
All right - that means it should be easy to submit a followup series to kill test -o. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org