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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!gmi!zombie.ncsc.mil!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!kfk.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!nils From: nils@gerfalke.ims.uni-stuttgart.de (Cornelis van der Laan) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: /bin/test not testing symlinks Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.development Date: 20 Sep 1994 09:42:38 GMT Organization: IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <NILS.94Sep20114239@gerfalke.ims.uni-stuttgart.de> Reply-To: nils@ims.uni-stuttgart.de NNTP-Posting-Host: gerfalke.ims.uni-stuttgart.de Why is /bin/test in FreeBSD 1.1.5 not able to test for symbolic links and sockets? The manual page says: "The test function is expected to be IEEE Std1003.2 (``POSIX'') compatible." But this compatibility doesn't prohibit that we have local extensions, or does it? Nils -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Cornelis van der Laan --- nils@ims.uni-stuttgart.de IMS Universitaet Stuttgart --- nils@guru.stgt.sub.org #echo "Knusper Knusper Knaeuschen" > /etc/nologin