* Jim Meyering wrote on Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 08:14:38PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I wasn't sure why you needed the special-casing for '['. > > Which shell has problems with it? The commit which adds the > > Hmm... I think the need to special case "[" dates back > farther than that relatively recent change. > It could be (in spite of the comment) that the culprit was > not a shell, but rather some vendor version of make. > Or maybe there's no problem at all ;-) > > Anyhow, this looks like a fine improvement. > And I'll probably apply as-is. > If there's a problem with `[', it won't be on a > main-stream target and we'll deal with it.
I would be interested in knowing about such a failure, so I'd appreciate a Cc: then. I've tried finding out more with 'git log -S', but it's not easy to come up with a good search string ... Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils