Re: [PULL v2 00/52] Misc patches for QEMU 5.1 soft freeze

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 16:31, Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 10.07.20 17:18, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > readarray only arrived sometime in bash 4, and the OSX system
> > bash is 3.2.57, so it won't have that builtin.
>
> It arrived with 4.0, actually, which was released 11 years ago.
> I had assumed that would be sufficiently mature.
>
> So, um, 11 years isn’t sufficiently mature then and I’ll have to work
> around not having readarray for macOS?

It's the usual Apple-vs-GPL3 issue.

I note that the iotests do seem to regularly run into
non-portable constructs: Kevin's latest pullreq has
just failed due to a use of 'truncate' that doesn't
work on the BSDs.

thanks
-- PMM