[csw-maintainers] Testing for file existence

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

Here's something for Unix grey beards that I discovered when debugging
a failing unit test in Google protobuf (protocol buffers).  Let's
consider the following set of commands:

cd /var/tmp
touch ${LOGNAME}-foo
test -e ${LOGNAME}-foo/ && echo yes || echo no

(note the trailing slash)

What is in your opinion the proper outcome?

Our buildfarm machines don't seem to agree on the issue.  Here are the
poll results:

|| build8s: no || build8x: yes ||
|| build9s: no || build9x: yes ||
|| build10s: no || build10x: no ||

The script that generated this output:
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/181493/

What do you make of it?  Is it a bug or a feature?  If it's a bug, can
it be fixed on the OS side?

Maciej