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Re: CVS commit: src/bin/expr



On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> Modified Files:
>       src/bin/expr: expr.y
> 
> Log Message:
> SUS says that expr must support "--" to prevent interpretation of
> negative numbers as options.

The man page said that we already supported it, in some clever way that
guessed whether or not to ignore the "--". Your change seems to make
expr ignore "--" unconditionally, which looks like a regression.

--apb (Alan Barrett)


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