On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:55 PM, David Korn <[email protected]> wrote:

> cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Re: [ast-developers] [ast-users] [ksh93] `>;  ' never worked
> before 2011-02-08?
> --------
>
> We don't have a testing team and rely heavily on users to test alpha
> and beta releases.  As the number of the early adoptors increases,
> the reliability will improve.
>
> Most bug reports are handled promptly.  We are planning to use
> bugzilla for future bug reports.
>

Looking forward to that.

>
> ksh93u has been soaking for some time.   There has been only one
> bug report in the last two weeks.
>
> ksh93v- which will be released soon is likely to be less stable
> initially, but has several new features and major code changes.
> A lot of changes focus on threads.
>
> As far as I know >; does work correctly in all cases.  If you
> find any problem, please report it.
>

Maybe it's a Solaris specific issue?

$ cat foo.ksh
uname -a
echo ${.sh.version}
echo foo > file
echo bar >> file
/usr/bin/grep foo file >; file
echo "\$?=$?"
cat file

$ ksh foo.ksh
SunOS xxx 5.11 11.1 sun4v sparc sun4v Solaris
Version JM 93u 2011-02-08
$?=1

$ ksh foo.ksh
SunOS xxx 5.11 snv_151a sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240 Solaris
Version JM 93t+ 2010-03-05
$?=1

$ ksh foo.ksh
SunOS xxx 5.11 snv_151a sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240 Solaris
Version AJMP 93u+ 2012-06-28
$?=0
foo


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