Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 05 Apr 1999 18:51:11 +0700 | From | Agus Budy Wuysang <> | Subject | Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman |
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"H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 11:10:57PM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Followup to: <19990404155740.A4657@hazel.buici.com> > > > By author: Oscar Levi <elf@buici.com> > > > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > > > > It's BROKEN -- it breaks the semantics of true(1) and false(1), which > > > among other things is that they ignore any arguments. Hence it is a > > > BUG. > > > > GNU is broken. > > -hpa
true(1) is NOT broken, it returns 0 with --help & --version argument...
false(1) however is (returns 0 with --help & --version).
BUT if one uses true(1) other than to examine its exit status, eg. to create empty file, it is broken...
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