Paul Eggert wrote: > On 11/12/11 01:34, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Maybe F15's bash has changed very recently? > > No, my /bin/bash is dated June 22. It says it's > > GNU bash, version 4.2.10(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) > > So I'm surprised that you didn't observe the bug when you were > running Fedora 15. I'm also surprised you didn't observe it > with Fedora 16, since the bug is in Bash -- maybe Fedora 16 > has patched it? > > The failing diagnostic (without my recent coreutils fix) is: > > ./misc/sort-continue: redirection error: cannot duplicate fd: Invalid argument > ./misc/sort-continue: line 33: /dev/null: Invalid argument
Oh! I thought you meant the test was actually failing. I have confirmed that even with bash from F16 (and without your patch), that diagnostic does appear in the log. > I can reproduce the bash bug with a simple test case, with > the latest stable Bash, and have reported this as a Bash bug > here: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-11/msg00062.html Nice. So it will be fixed soon.
