GNU bug report logs - #16940
[PATCH] tests: Do not access /dev/tty if it does not exist

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 03:42:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 16940 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
Cc: 16940 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16940: [PATCH] tests: Do not access /dev/tty if it does not
 exist
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 19:05:33 +0000

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On 03/05/2014 04:46 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Note the ':>' is problematic though as the : always returns true.
> Well it does for solaris, freebsd, dash, bash-4.3 at least.
> In ksh and bash<=4.2 it does return an error as you assumed.
> The ':>' construct is only needed for csh anyway I think
> which we don't support.
> 
> I notice a few more cases: git grep ": *>.*"
> which I'll fix in a follow up patch with maybe a syntax check.

Attached.

thanks,
Pádraig.


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