> Khimenko Victor <khim@sch57.msk.ru> wrote:
> > It can be called BUG ONLY if you can show some POSIX specification
> > where said that true(1) and false(1) must ignore any arguments. Till
> > not shown otherwise it's FEATURE. You can like or dislike this FEATURE
> > but you can not clain that it's BUG !
>
> I don't have POSIX, but the Single Unix Specification v2 says:
>
> NAME
> false - return false value
> SYNOPSIS
> false
> DESCRIPTION
> The false utility will return with a non-zero exit code.
> OPTIONS
> None.
> OPERANDS
> None.
> [SNIP]
> STDOUT
> Not used.
> STDERR
> None.
> EXIT STATUS
> The false utility always will exit with a value other than zero.
>
> I think "always will exit with a value other than zero" and
> "STDOUT Not used" are fairly unambiguous. Similar things are said
> about true -- stdout and stderr unused, no options allowed.
>
You are in scope of standard ONLY of you do not specify options and
operands. And yes, when true and false are called without options and
operands they will not use stdout and they will "always exit with a value
other then zero".
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