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Re: [PATCH 4/5] t/t7006: ignore return status of shell's unset builtin

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 2, 2010, 05:47 UTC
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<20100602054737.GA9369@progeny.tock>
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Brandon Casey wrote:
> The unset builtin of Solaris's xpg4/sh returns non-zero if it is passed a
> variable name which was not previously set.

This is historical ksh behavior (only changed in 2009-01-14) even if it violates SUSv2. It probably comes up on a lot of platforms. Thanks.

Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
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Message 27 of 31 in “miscellaneous test suite fixes”
  1. 0/5 miscellaneous test suite fixesBrandon Casey, Jun 2, 2010
  2. 1/5 t/t5800: skip if python version is older than 2.5Brandon Casey, Jun 2, 2010
  3. Sverre RabbelierJun 2, 2010
  4. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 2, 2010
  5. Brandon CaseyJun 2, 2010
  6. Brandon CaseyJun 2, 2010
  7. Sverre RabbelierJun 2, 2010
  8. Brandon CaseyJun 2, 2010
  9. test suite work-around for python 2.5 requirementBrandon Casey, Jun 2, 2010
  10. 1/2 Makefile: add PYTHON_PATH to GIT-BUILD-OPTIONSBrandon Casey, Jun 2, 2010
  11. 2/2 t/t5800: skip if python version is older than 2.5Brandon Casey, Jun 2, 2010
  12. Sverre RabbelierAug 17, 2010
  13. Jonathan NiederAug 17, 2010
  14. Sverre RabbelierAug 17, 2010
  15. Jonathan NiederAug 17, 2010
  16. Sverre RabbelierAug 18, 2010
  17. Brandon CaseyAug 18, 2010
  18. Johannes SixtJun 2, 2010
  19. Brandon CaseyJun 2, 2010
  20. 2/5 git-request-pull.sh: remove -e switch to shell interpreter which breaks kshBrandon Casey, Jun 2, 2010
  21. Jonathan NiederJun 2, 2010
  22. Brandon CaseyJun 2, 2010
  23. Junio C HamanoJun 2, 2010
  24. 3/5 t/t5150: remove space from sed scriptBrandon Casey, Jun 2, 2010
  25. Jonathan NiederJun 2, 2010
  26. 4/5 t/t7006: ignore return status of shell's unset builtinBrandon Casey, Jun 2, 2010
  27. Jonathan NiederJun 2, 2010
  28. Johannes SixtJun 2, 2010
  29. Brandon CaseyJun 2, 2010
  30. 4/5 t/t7006: ignore return status of shell's unset builtinBrandon Casey, Jun 2, 2010
  31. 5/5 t/aggregate-results: accomodate systems with small max argument list lengthBrandon Casey, Jun 2, 2010

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