From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932425AbWFODxF (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:53:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932429AbWFODxF (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:53:05 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:21696 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932425AbWFODxE (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:53:04 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" Subject: Re: patch for "bizarre read bug" in klibc dash Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:53:05 +0600 Message-ID: <4490D9A1.8010405@ums.usu.ru> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.220.94.56 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ru-RU; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060405 SeaMonkey/1.0.1 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Joshua Hudson wrote: > I had forked ash awhile back, patched up a few things to behave the > way I wanted them. > While I was at it, I fixed the "echo X | read X ; echo $X" bug that > echoed a blank line. > I tried awhile ago to raise who was responsible for the code and got > nowhere. Have you tested your line with bash? Here it prints an empty line. You really should use "echo X | ( read X ; echo $X )". So I don't think that ash is broken, and thus cannot acknowledge the patch. -- Alexander E. Patrakov