Package: bash Version: 2.05a-11 Severity: grave chiark:~> bash 0>/dev/null chiark:~> echo $? 0 chiark:~> strace bash 0>/dev/null 2>&1 | egrep '^read\(0|^_?exit' read(0, 0x80cadb0, 1) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) _exit(0) = ? chiark:~> dpkg -s bash Package: bash Essential: yes Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: base Installed-Size: 872 Maintainer: Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 2.05a-11 Replaces: bash-doc (<= 2.05-1), bash-completion Depends: base-files (>= 2.1.12) Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-1) Conflicts: bash-completion Conffiles: /etc/bash.bashrc e218a2979b01db4e9c3ae19c94294a57 /etc/bash_completion 5769c2f29cbbc0bde1cf2996ec6231ec /etc/skel/.bash_profile d8e9ecd0b80102c82966a045544bbf68 /etc/skel/.bashrc e9d2739d6f3d7672222c07d901d46e21 Description: The GNU Bourne Again SHell Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh). . Bash is ultimately intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE POSIX Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2).
chiark:~> type bash bash is hashed (/bin/bash) chiark:~> I have also reproduced this with bash 2.05b-2-26, and in the latter case managed to prove to myself that it does the same with EIO. This lack of proper error handling might easily cause data loss, as a script might exit 0 when it hasn't done its work. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
