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Re: [PATCH] Document a bug in GNU Bash with {...} blocks and redirection


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document a bug in GNU Bash with {...} blocks and redirections.
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 17:42:19 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

Hi Eric,

* Eric Blake wrote on Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 04:40:34PM CET:
> 
> Any more edits before we check this in?

Looks good to me.  If you like, you can adjust the nits below
(but please don't put me in the ChangeLog entry ;-)

[...]
> +As recently as GNU Bash 3.2, some shells do not properly set @samp{$?}
> +when failing to write redirected output of any compound command other
> +than a subshell group, when that compound command is the first thing
> +executed.  This is most commonly observed with @address@hidden, but affects
> +other compound commands.

You could add "also" after "but", or "as well" at the end.

> +The workaround is simple - prime bash with a simple command before any
> +compound command with redirection.

I'd use a colon "simple: prime ...", also the manual mostly uses
word---word for em dashes.

Cheers,
Ralf




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