Anirban Sinha wrote:
> Hmm, interesting. The patch that went in is slightly different:
>
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.0-patches/bash40-019
>
> Anyway, I have applied this patch to our copy of older bash:
>
> GNU bash, version 3.1.0(5)-release (mips64-unknown-linux-gnu)
> Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> and tested. The buggy pipe processing is now no longer present.
I'm glad it worked, but I have two questions: why are you running a
bash version that's so old, and if you can't upgrade, why hasn't it
been patched with any of the 3.1 patches? You might find it works
better.
Chet
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