On 4/9/25 9:46 AM, Dan Shelton wrote:
What is not great is the cmd | x=${|cmd;} extension in HP/UX which
randomly hung or crashed /bin/sh in a way to make the tty locked and
unuseable.
Sure, I get that. I wager that there are comparatively few people who
will assume this is an implementation of that HP/UX (mis)feature.
But maybe before asking for documentation clarifications to call out
that it's *not* some short-lived obscure historical feature, take a look
at the documentation currently describing it and see if it's clear
enough.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
