Subject: Re: bug#17774: AIX and lbracket ([) program - will not install on AIX using installp

From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:16:13 -0600

On 06/17/2014 02:50 PM, Michael Felt wrote:
> FYI: the program runs fine, and even from the command line (the extra ] at
> the end must satisify the ksh syntax checking).

Rather, the 'test' binary and the 'lbracket' binary differ in one
crucial aspect: 'lbracket' requires its last argument in argv[] to be
"]".  It is not ksh, but lbracket itself that requires the matching ],
and it is this fact that allows us to obey POSIX while still allowing '[
--help' to produce help text, even though 'test --help' cannot do so
(that is, '[' has an escape hatch that 'test' does not).

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