Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.24: OpenBSD testsuite failures

[Christian Weisgerber]

Paul Eggert:

> One other thing.  Can you please replace all instances
> of "((ulimit -n" with "( (ulimit -n" in tests/testsuite?
> This fixes a portability bug in that script that may
> be relevant to the OpenBSD shell.  This reflects the
> following patch that I just pushed:

When called as "ksh", OpenBSD's shell indeed stumbles over this,
but when called as "sh"--as in the testsuite--it doesn't implement
the (( )) arithmetic command, so this is not a problem.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          address@hidden