Re: [dwm] problem with dmenu3.1

Anselm R. Garbe --> dwm (2007-05-23 13:23:43 +0200):
> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 01:14:12PM +0200, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> >
> > I'm able to reproduce this problem with a bourne shell on some BSD
> > systems; it seems to be a bug in the test(1) code. Maybe you were
> > bitten by the same bug.
> >
> > To make dmenu_path more robust against such problems I'd recommend the
> > attached patch. Furthermore it speeds up execution time a little bit
> > in case the cache has to be rebuilt because of a changed directory
> > (unless it the last directory in the $PATH).
>
> Thanks! I applied it to the repo, however I'm not totally sure
> the use of [ is a good idea. Is [ a symlink to test in any Unix?

Both [ and test are shell builtins in sh and ksh at least on NetBSD,
and in bash. And NetBSD also has

$ ls -li /bin/[ /bin/test
42532 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 18583 Apr 25 23:18 /bin/[
42532 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 18583 Apr 25 23:18 /bin/test

Regards, Jukka

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