Barry Fishman <barry_fish...@acm.org> writes:

> The same thing happens with Ubuntu Jaunty.  I Don't think it is Guile
> failing.  It the test that caused problems:
>
>     (open-input-pipe "read && echo $REPLY")
>
> In Ubuntu and NetBSD, Bash is not the default shell, so "read" requires
> an argument. From the /bin/sh shell (linked to /bin/dash):
>
> $ read && echo $REPLY
> read: 1: arg count
>
> It works when popen.test is changed to do:
>
>     (open-input-pipe "read line && echo $line")

That's fantastic, thanks.  I've committed this change to
branch_release-1-8, and will shortly to master also.

      Neil


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