At 12:01 AM -0800 12/12/07, Dean S. Messing wrote: ... >Of course, with this new knowledge, I will feel as free as a bird to >boldly ignore the Standard (in this respect) seeing how several other >prominent linux executables (busybox, lvm, dump/restore, halt, to name >a few) have been blithely ignoring it for more than a decade. 1?2:-) Also sendmail, which is also known as newaliases, mailq, hoststat, and purgestat -- but none of these programs come directly from GNU, as test does. Splitting test and [ seems to me a mistake of too much purity. I think the guidelines should list a few examples (the linker seems a good one) and a few counter-examples (sendmail due to long useage, test due to the need for [ to be exactly the same as test except for requiring a last option of ]. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
