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SubjectRe: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman
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"Khimenko Victor" <khim@sch57.msk.ru> writes:

> GD> Exit Status: The false utility always shall exit with a value other than zero.

"always" and "always unless condition X is met" are _not_ the same
thing. The standard says "always shall exit with a value other than
zero", so unless it _always_ exits with a value other than zero, it
does not comply to the standard. It's quite simple, really.

> When GNU true and false used according to POSIX (i.e. without arguments) then
> work like POSIX specify.

You utterly failed to understand that standard excerpt, didn't you?

Sigh.


--nat

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nat lanza --------------------- research programmer, parallel data lab, cmu scs
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there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths -- alfred north whitehead

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