On Tuesday 25 July 2006 15:16, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> I was disagreeing with the "cant be the same" comment. I know they are
> different files, but the slightly different behaviour is insufficient
> reason for that. Alexander asked why one was not a link to the other,
> I'd like to know too, but this isn't the reason.
[slowly getting OT...]
Looking at coreutils sources, it turns out that there are two files:
test.c and lbracket.c.
test.c is the actual program, and lbracket.c is as follows:
$ cat lbracket.c
#define LBRACKET 1
#include "test.c"
so, test.c does all the work.
After taking a quick look at the code, seems that the only times LBRACKET
is checked are in the following fragments:
...
/* The official name of this program (e.g., no `g' prefix). */
#if LBRACKET
# define PROGRAM_NAME "["
#else
# define PROGRAM_NAME "test"
#endif
...
if (LBRACKET)
{
/* Recognize --help or --version, but only when invoked in the
"[" form, and when the last argument is not "]". POSIX
allows "[ --help" and "[ --version" to have the usual GNU
behavior, but it requires "test --help" and "test --version"
to exit silently with status 1. */
if (margc < 2 || !STREQ (margv[margc - 1], "]"))
{
parse_long_options (margc, margv, PROGRAM_NAME, GNU_PACKAGE, VERSION,
usage, AUTHORS, (char const *) NULL);
test_syntax_error (_("missing `]'\n"), NULL);
}
--margc;
}
argc = margc;
pos = 1;
...
Again, the above could have been implemented by looking at argv[0].
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