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[[ ... ]]: fix '!' to negate another '!'

Bug: [[ ! ! 1 -eq 1 ]] returns false, but should return true.

This bug was reported for bash, but ksh has it too:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2021-06/msg00006.html

Op 24-05-21 om 17:47 schreef Chet Ramey:
> On 5/22/21 2:45 PM, Vincent Menegaux wrote:
>> Previously, these commands:
>>
>>    [[ ! 1 -eq 1 ]]; echo $?
>>    [[ ! ! 1 -eq 1 ]]; echo $?
>>
>> would both result in `1', since parsing `!' set CMD_INVERT_RETURN
>> instead of toggling it.
>
> Interestingly, ksh93 produces the same result as bash. I agree
> that it's more intuitive to toggle it.

Also interesting is that '!' as an argument to the simple
'test'/'[' command does work as expected (on both bash and ksh93):
'test ! ! 1 -eq 1' and '[ ! ! 1 -eq 1 ]' return 0/true.

Even the man page for [[ is identical for bash and ksh93:

|               ! expression
|                      True if expression is false.

This suggests it's supposed to be a logical negation operator, i.e.
'!' is implicitly documented to negate another '!'. Bolsky & Korn's
1995 ksh book, p. 167, is slightly more explicit about it:
"! test-expression. Logical negation of test-expression."

I also note that multiple '!' negators in '[[' work as expected on
mksh, yash and zsh.

src/cmd/ksh93/sh/parse.c: test_primary():
- Fix bitwise logic for '!': xor the TNEGATE bit into tretyp
  instead of or'ing it, which has the effect of toggling it.
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Any uppercase BUG_* names are modernish shell bug IDs.
2021-06-03:
- Fixed a bug in the [[ compound command: the '!' logical negation operator
now correctly negates another '!', e.g., [[ ! ! 1 -eq 1 ]] now returns
0/true. Note that this has always been the case for 'test'/'['.
2021-05-18:
- Fixed SHLVL so that replacing ksh by itself (exec ksh) will not increase it.