Hello! Jonathan Nieder wrote: > unmerge 646847 > retitle 646847 dash.1: document single-digit limitation on fd numbers in > redirections severity 646847 minor > quit > > Markus Raab wrote: > > Maybe this behaviour can just be documented in the man-page: > > Sure --- that sounds like a sensible idea. Given a patch in "diff -u" > format (against src/dash.1 from the source tree, or > /usr/share/man/man1/dash.1.gz from the binary package), I'd be happy > to forward this upstream (or one can contact upstream directly as > described at [1]).
Perfectly, thank you. See the patch below at [0]. The git repo at kernel.org seems to be still offline (it is empty?), so the patch is against the version in squeeze (dash 0.5.7). I am not used to troff syntax - I just looked at the surrounding text - so I hope it is done correctly. I also fixed a small mistake in the "See also" section, I think it should be chsh, because this is refered to in the beginning of the manpage while csh is never mentioned in the whole page. > [...] > > > Even better would be to make the parser aware of this limitation and > > print out a better message > > It's probably easier to remove the limitation. :) You might be right on that ;) > Thanks for your thoughtfulness. Thanks for your quick and helpful response. Best regards Markus [0] diff --git a/src/dash.1 b/src/dash.1 index 3847d98..21a48f8 100644 --- a/src/dash.1 +++ b/src/dash.1 @@ -385,10 +385,11 @@ is one of the redirection operators mentioned previously. Following is a list of the possible redirections. The .Bq n -is an optional number, as in -.Sq 3 -(not -.Sq Bq 3 ) , +is an optional number between 0 and 9 +(written as +.Sq 9 +and not +.Sq Bq 9 ) that refers to a file descriptor. .Bl -tag -width aaabsfiles -offset indent .It [n] Ns \*[Gt] file @@ -2322,7 +2323,7 @@ The process ID of the parent process of the shell. .Pa /etc/profile .El .Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr csh 1 , +.Xr chsh 1 , .Xr echo 1 , .Xr getopt 1 , .Xr ksh 1 , -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
