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From: "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Subject: git-bisect: weird usage of read(1)
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:57:04 +0200
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Hello

I found this in git bisect:

              printf >&2 'Are you sure [Y/n]? '
              case "$(read yesno)" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac

which looks very weird since read(1) returns a status and not the
string reads from std input.

Am I missing something ?

Thanks
-- 
Francis