Re: Bug#501566: dash: details of redirection/duplication in manpage are reversed

["Stéphane Aulery" <saulery@free.fr>]

Hello Stephen,

Le mardi 11 novembre 2014 à 02:23:21, Stephen Shirley a écrit :
> On 10 November 2014 14:49, Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr> wrote:
> > Le lundi 10 novembre 2014 à 09:24:09, Herbert Xu a écrit :
> >> Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501566
> >>
> >> I'm sorry but this patch looks wrong and the text looks correct
> >> to me as is.
> >
> > Ok. I passed the information but I'm not really able to judge its
> > pertinence. In this case I close this bug.
> 
> So, i finally managed to figure out what the problem is. The wording
> is ambiguous (or maybe just insufficiently clear).
> 
> "[n1]>&n2    Duplicate standard output (or n1) to n2."


Herbert rejected both corrections. Your new proposal is better but
incomplete. Stéphane Chazelas tried to complete it. Moreover you have
not made a new proposal for the first correction.

As I am not dash user, I do not have a good knowledge of the matter. Can
you complete your answer / choice, please?

Thank you in advance for your help.


Original version:

1)  [n1]<&n2    Duplicate standard input (or n1) from file descriptor n2.

2)  [n1]>&n2    Duplicate standard output (or n1) to n2.


Version on Debian bug tracker and refused by H. Xu:

1)  [n1]<&n2    Duplicate standard input (or n1) to file descriptor n2.

2)  [n1]>&n2    Duplicate standard output (or n1) from n2.


Second version of the patch refused by H. Xu:

2)  [n1]>&n2    Redirect standard output (or n1) to n2.


Stéphane Chazelas proposals:

1a) [n1]>&n2    Redirect standard output (or fd n1) to the same "open
                file description" as on fd n2.

1b) [n1]>&n2    Redirect standard output (or fd n1) to
                the same resource as open on fd n2.

1c) [n1]>&n2    Copy fd n2 as stdout (or fd n1)


Regards,

-- 
Stéphane Aulery