Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 11:05:35 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /bin/test broken ? Message-ID: <99Dec24.105638est.40325@border.alcanet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199912232030.MAA65714@pau-amma.whistle.com>; from dhw@whistle.com on Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 07:30:03AM %2B1100 References: <99Dec23.123516est.40332@border.alcanet.com.au> <199912232030.MAA65714@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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On 1999-Dec-24 07:30:03 +1100, David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> wrote: >>That said, the error message should have been: >> test: ]: unexpected operator >>and it is not clear why you are getting `[' reported as the program >>name. > >Well, /bin/test and /bin/[ are links to the same inode: Agreed, but the error message is printed by errx(3). errx(3) prints __progname (which is effectively equivalent to argv[0]) as the program name - ie the name by which the program was invoked. test(1) includes a check near the beginning to see it it was invoked as `[' and if it was it checks to see that the last argument is `]' and deletes it if it was. In both cases, the remaining arguments are then passed to the expression evaluator. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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