linux-kernel - Re: [patch] use POSIX equality test in check-lxdialog.sh

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Date:	Thu, 24 May 2007 17:53:54 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
cc:	sam@...nborg.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] use POSIX equality test in check-lxdialog.sh


On May 23 2007 21:37, Mike Frysinger wrote:

>The "==" operator is not in POSIX, so use -eq instead.

Apart from that, == is for strings, -eq is for numbers,
so that wrong variable content can be caught
("$x" -eq 123 where x=123foo throws an error).

So yes, the patch is good.

	Jan
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