4.4 GA (general availability) release?

[strombrg]

Hi folks.

I feel a little guilty asking this, because I know Chet's pretty busy, and 
there may be plenty of good reasons to release on a regular schedule, or to 
release "when it's ready".

But it looks like there were about 3 years between bash' 4.2 GA and 4.3 GA.

Should I expect that it'll be about 3 years from 4.3 GA to 4.4 GA?  Meaning 4.4 
GA could be estimated as releasing around February of 2017?

Thanks!

PS: I've been checking for the 4.4 release pretty often.  Silly of me I suppose.

Fwd: read builtin return non-zero status reason

[Cuong Manh Le]

I send this email to help-bash but it seems to be inactive. Please help me
with this problem. Thanks.

-- Forwarded message --
From: Cuong Manh Le 
Date: Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:14 AM
Subject: read builtin return non-zero status reason
To: help-b...@gnu.org


The bash read builtin documentation said that when read reached EOF, it's
return non-zero status. So in:

read -d '' l <<- EOF
test
EOF


Did read return non-zero status because of it reached EOF or it failed to
read the whole input because it could not find the delimiter?

IMHO, the second reason is correct.

The full story is here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/265149/38906. I and
the other one have conflict about this.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks.