Re: Success (mostly) with the testsuite

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "David" == David Morgan <address@hidden> writes:

David> Akim Demaille wrote:
>> | The script results are: | | .  | 1
>> 
>> Does it *always* fail, or it's just the operator | which does not
>> erase failures?
>> 
>> expr 'a' : '\(a\)'; echo $?
>> 
>> expr 'a' : '\(b\)' '|' 'a' : '\(a\)'; echo $?

David> It always fails

David> Both cases return 'a' and an exit code of 1.

David> Looks like a buggy OS at this point as I tried the failure case
David> of just

David> expr 'a' : '\(b\)' ; echo $?

David> And I get a 0 with no output.

Nia?  Are you saying `expr' is always exiting the negation of the
expected answer?

expr 'a' : '\(a\)' || echo failure
expr 'a' : '\(b\)' && echo failure

gives twice failure?  How does the following behave?

expr 'a' : 'a' || echo failure
expr 'a' : 'b' && echo failure