On 10.07.20 17:42, Peter Maydell wrote: > 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.
:/ I’ll send a patch to drop readarray. Max
