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Re: Bug#270594: coreutils: Test manpage improvements (-e, -w and -x)
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Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña |
Subject: |
Re: Bug#270594: coreutils: Test manpage improvements (-e, -w and -x) |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:58:03 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i |
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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- Re: coreutils: Test manpage improvements (-e, -w and -x), (continued)
- Re: coreutils: Test manpage improvements (-e, -w and -x), Alfred M. Szmidt, 2004/09/08
- Re: Bug#270594: coreutils: Test manpage improvements (-e, -w and -x), Jim Meyering, 2004/09/08
- Re: Bug#270594: coreutils: Test manpage improvements (-e, -w and -x), Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, 2004/09/08
- Re: Bug#270594: coreutils: Test manpage improvements (-e, -w and -x), Paul Eggert, 2004/09/09
- Re: Bug#270594: coreutils: Test manpage improvements (-e, -w and -x), Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, 2004/09/09
- Re: Bug#270594: coreutils: Test manpage improvements (-e, -w and -x), Paul Eggert, 2004/09/09
- Re: Bug#270594: coreutils: Test manpage improvements (-e, -w and -x), Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, 2004/09/09
- Re: Bug#270594: coreutils: Test manpage improvements (-e, -w and -x), Paul Eggert, 2004/09/09
- Re: Bug#270594: coreutils: Test manpage improvements (-e, -w and -x),
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