Hi, I rebuilt all packages in Debian in a chroot using dash as /bin/sh, which uncovered quite a lot of problems in build scripts. One of the problems is about output redirection.
I understand that: command &>/dev/null is a bashism. (with dash, it forks a subshell) the "common" replacement is: command >/dev/null 2>&1 Which works fine with dash. However, I couldn't find any reference to ">&1" in the posix standard. Is it really posix-compliant? Shouldn't we use instead: command >/dev/null 2>/dev/null Thank you, -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
