* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 06:31:21PM CET: > > Thanks for writing the test case, and good job, it exposes the first > > read issue. > > > Oh, I thought it exposed also the second one. After all, if the > shell bails out on a failed read, I'd expect the `$(TEST_SUITE_LOG)' > file not to be created, and us to be left simply with the temporary > file `$(TEST_SUITE_LOG).tmp'. But maybe the Tru64/OSF 5.1 shell is > one of those shell which execute a redirected compound command > { ...; } in a subshell?
Yes, it is. > In that case, the second `test -r' check > wasn't really warrented (altough IMHO it's good to have it, for > consistency), so no big deal not to have it covered. Agreed. Cheers, Ralf