On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 16:31, Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 10.07.20 17:18, Peter Maydell wrote: > > readarray only arrived sometime in bash 4, and the OSX system > > bash is 3.2.57, so it won't have that builtin. > > It arrived with 4.0, actually, which was released 11 years ago. > I had assumed that would be sufficiently mature. > > So, um, 11 years isn’t sufficiently mature then and I’ll have to work > around not having readarray for macOS?
It's the usual Apple-vs-GPL3 issue. I note that the iotests do seem to regularly run into non-portable constructs: Kevin's latest pullreq has just failed due to a use of 'truncate' that doesn't work on the BSDs. thanks -- PMM
