Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman

Nat Lanza (magus@cs.cmu.edu)
05 Apr 1999 18:58:24 -0400


"Khimenko Victor" <khim@sch57.msk.ru> writes:

> GD> Exit Status: The false utility always shall exit with a value other than zero.

"always" and "always unless condition X is met" are _not_ the same
thing. The standard says "always shall exit with a value other than
zero", so unless it _always_ exits with a value other than zero, it
does not comply to the standard. It's quite simple, really.

> When GNU true and false used according to POSIX (i.e. without arguments) then
> work like POSIX specify.

You utterly failed to understand that standard excerpt, didn't you?

Sigh.

--nat

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