Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 05:44:03PM CET: > $ foo=; printf 'abc' > file; read foo < file; echo $? $foo > 1 abc > > Does anyone know of a shell where this patch would fail (either because the > shell spits out an error message, or because foo is unpopulated due to the > nonzero status)?
Solaris 2.10 dtksh will print 1 ab Tru64/OSF1 dtksh will print 0 These shells are not reasonable targets of current configure scripts, but I wonder whether it's worth the hassle of potential problems with shells on less-used systems. Cheers, Ralf
