On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:11:43 +0200 Andrea Scarpino <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 April 2010 14:04:44 Allan McRae wrote: > > This changes /usr/bin/[ from a symlink to /usr/bin/test to the > > actual binary provided upstream. The use of the symlink has been > > in Arch for ages (probably for ever), but I can not see what this > > change will break. Having the symlink does break some stuff > > (FS#19063). Note that Fedora moved from the symlink to the binary > > for "[" in 2004. > > > > Signoff both, > > Allan > signoff x86_64 > so what exactly does the binary do? is it an exact copy of /usr/bin/test, is it a small program that does exec(), or .. ? I downloaded the 8.4 tarball but couldn't quickly find the answer. Dieter
