Re: Bug#270594: coreutils: Test manpage improvements (-e, -w and -x)

[Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 04:24:56PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > -FILE exists and is writable
> > +FILE exists and is writable.  True indicates only that the write flag is 
> > on.
> > +The file is not writable on a read-only file system even if this
> > +test indicates true
> 
> I see.  That wording is a bit verbose and doesn't describe all the
> reasons why test -w FILE would succeed but writing to the file would
> fail, so I installed the following patch instead.  Thanks for
> following up on this.

The patch looks quite OK to me. Thanks for taking care of this :-)
[For Debian's BTS and coreutils' maintainer] 
Maybe this bug should be reassigned to bash so that this documentation 
improvement is done in its info/manpage too. BTW, I believe the patch 
provided also fixes #230957 BTW.

Regards

Javier

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