Re: patch for "bizarre read bug" in klibc dash

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

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

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