Re: bash built-ins `true' and `false' undocumented

2013-09-29 Thread Roland Winkler
On Fri Sep 27 2013 Chris Down wrote: > Well, they're directly part of the POSIX spec. I'm not sure there's a > need to reiterate absolutely everything that is already required by > POSIX. Well, the question is whether the info manual should provide a self-contained documentation or whether it shou

Re: bash built-ins `true' and `false' undocumented

2013-09-29 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sat Sep 28 2013 Mike Frysinger wrote: > on a GNU system, coreutils provides `true` and `false` as well as man & info > pages. i don't think having bash duplicate things would be useful in any way. The "NOTE" issued by $ /bin/true --help was one reason for me I looked into this. I assume