GNU bug report logs - #8846
coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.31: 3 of 365 tests failed

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>

Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:17:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 8846 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "bug-autoconf <at> gnu.org" <bug-autoconf <at> gnu.org>, Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
Subject: bug#8846: coreutils-8.12 on HP-UX 11.31: 3 of 365 tests failed
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:03:25 +0200
Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/13/2011 04:11 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Thank you for the testing and report.
>> That "bad file number" error comes from this code in init.sh:
>>
>>     : ${stderr_fileno_=2}
>>     warn_ () { echo "$@" 1>&$stderr_fileno_; }
>>
>> Because of that, the log contains less information than usual.
>
> I'm having problems summarizing this shell bug into a succinct
> description that would be worth including in the autoconf manual.  What
> exactly is the bug here?
>
> That is, my attempt to provoke the problem on HP-UX 11.11 with this
> snippet is not failing with a "bad file number":
>
> $ /bin/sh -c 'n=3; f(){ echo "$@" 1>&$n; }; exec 3>&2; f hi'
> hi

Per Bruno's report, running "make check" on HP-UX 11.31 resulted
in one "Bad file number" diagnostic per use of init.sh.
Perhaps it's a problem in 11.31 that is not in 11.1.




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