The following reply was made to PR bin/35184; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/35184: ksh does not handle '-o' or '-a' conditionals correctly if comparing strings containing hyphens
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 22:01:47 +0000

 On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 02:00:01PM +0000, john.horne@plymouth.ac.uk wrote:
 > Under ksh the following conditional test fails:
 > 
 >    $ test "-n" = "-n" -o "-e" = "-e" && echo ok
 >    ksh: test: -n: unexpected operator/operand
 
 This is valid (by posix) see:
 http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/test.html
 
 >4 arguments:
 The results are unspecified.
 
 	David
 
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 David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk