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touch & README


From: address@hidden
Subject: touch & README
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 03:49:21 GMT

First, the REEADME says, "There are pretty many tests," which would fail any 
remedial English class.  Just remove the "pretty".

tests/touch/not-owner produces a misdirecting error message when touch is 
allowed to change "/".  Then "out" is a null string which will not match one of 
the three "exp" strings.  It prints the last of the three error message 
strings.  Since the error condition, successful completion, was known 
specifically even before the error message is checked, there was no reason to 
go that far and a more explicit error message could have been given.

(Now, all I have to do is figure why it compiled code that allowed it.)

Paul Rogers  (address@hidden)
http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/
Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates."
(I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-)






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