[BusyBox] Re: ash bug

Vladimir N. Oleynik dzo at simtreas.ru
Thu Jul 31 14:32:19 UTC 2003


Jean,

> [ forwarded reply from Herbert Xu ]
> 
> 
>>ash's behaviour is correct.  POSIX imposes no restrictions on this.
>>Even with the patch, you will still see no output if you did
> 
> 
> :(
> 
> Am I really wrong and the behaviour of ash is correct? 
> 
> I simply can't believe that but I don't have any arguments if Herbert
> says, Posix doesn't specify that so I'am free to implement it like I
> want without bothering whether this makes sense or not. 
> 
> Is it actually correct to mix the stderr output of the shell and a
> command the shell is executing?

ash is minimal shell with support very much features.
Other shells is more dumb or bigger.


--w
vodz





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