tags 499139 +help thanks Hi,
I verified #499139 with mksh, pdksh and – interestingly enough – AT&T ksh93 on Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable. I wonder if the file descriptor magic of debconf is at fault here instead, as, usually, the ksh93 behaviour is “right”. As I barely know debconf at all, I have slight problems what exactly is going on. With modified scripts (sh → mksh in both, a 3>&3 added, and an initial “print test-ksh running: "$0 $*"” and “set -x”) I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ./test-ksh test-ksh running: ./test-ksh + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule + [ ! ] + PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 + export PERL_DL_NONLAZY + [ ] + exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend ./test-ksh debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule + [ ! 1 ] + [ -z ] + exec + 3>&1 + [ ] + exec + >&2 + DEBCONF_REDIR=1 + export DEBCONF_REDIR + ./run-test + 3>&3 run-test running: ./run-test + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule + [ ! 1 ] + [ -z 1 ] + db_get dictionaries-common/default-ispell ./run-test[7]: >&3 : bad file descriptor I decided to add the help tag instead of cloning twice and assigning the duplicates to pdksh and ksh93, but maybe someone can tell me, us, what is going on there, and maybe the pdksh and ksh93 maintainers can join in? (Is there a way to let them know of this bug report automatically? I just chime in this early due to a private mail from the originator…) bye, //mirabilos -- Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh- ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions in English text in bold font. -- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
