Re: Proposed doc updates

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Forgot half a sentence, sorry.

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 04:55:40PM CET:
> My comment was: Besides ash, some Bourne shells also output the error
> with
>   nonexistent 2>/dev/null
> , but they do accept
>   { nonexistent; } 2>/dev/null
> and do not output anything with it.  They do fork for the { }, though.

That is, if the redirection is applied:
$ { foo=bar; } 2>/dev/null              # SVR4 based Bourne shell
$ echo $foo
$

> Most newer shells don't fork for the { }, so that gives us a speed
> advantage when using { ...; } rather than ( ...).

Regards,
Ralf