Re: test: -a and -o not portable? Since when?

[Reuben Thomas]

On 13 March 2011 15:22, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 03/13/2011 07:30 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>> They're specified in POSIX
>
> They're marked as an obsolescent XSI extension in POSIX.1-2008.

Pity that the POSIX man pages say none of this (but I don't know that
they even mention 2008).

Thanks for the explanation. A one-line explanation such as:

# (syntactically ambiguous in some cases; deprecated by POSIX)

would be nice to see in maint.mk, given that the audience for the
checks there is likely to be quite pedantic in the first place.

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