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Re: openbsd5.4: spurious ls/infloop test failure: due to bug in /bin/sh
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Eric Blake |
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Re: openbsd5.4: spurious ls/infloop test failure: due to bug in /bin/sh |
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Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:46:52 -0700 |
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According to Jim Meyering on 1/13/2010 2:56 AM:
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> * tests/ls/infloop: OpenBSD4.5's /bin/sh would mistakenly include
> "set -x"-output in an application's stderr stream when stderr is
> redirected before stdout.
I believe autoconf already covers this one; in the node 'File
Descriptors', so the fix is obviously correct:
> If you intend to redirect both standard error and standard output,
> redirect standard output first. This works better with @acronym{HP-UX},
> since its shell mishandles tracing if standard error is redirected
> first:
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Eric Blake address@hidden
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