Re: test -nt/-ot behavior

[Oleg Verych <olecom@xxxxxxxxx>]

2010/2/21, Guido Berhoerster <guido+kernel.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> So IMHO the consequence for ash should be to either merge the fix from pdksh
> or to drop -nt, -ot, and -ef altogether,

> I would prefer that
> latter since I think silently changing the behavior in an
> incompatible way is bad practice and these features are not
> specified in POSIX anyway.

Me is for the first + `sed` script to add `test -e &&` stuff in
bug-oriented scripts, for bug compatibility.

Breaking stuff is not building useful features.
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