RE: Who handles "fails to build" problems for bash?

Tried adding each of -lcurses and -lncurses with the following results: /home/users/tovrea/local/sgi6/bin/gcc -L./builtins -L./lib/readline -L./lib/readline -L./lib/glob -L./lib/tilde -L./lib/sh -L/home/users/tovrea/local/sgi6/lib/gcc/mips-sgi-irix6.5/4.3.0 -L/home/users/tovrea/local/sgi6/lib/

Re: printf does not always display warning messages on write errors

Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Hi everybody. > > I found the following bug while running some of my bash scripts on > GNU/Linux with stdout redirected to /dev/full, to see if write errors > where correctly detected and reported. > > It turned out that, on write errors, the printf builtin correctly >

Re: ulimit and ssh?

peter360 wrote: > So, just to make sure I really understand this, here is how I understand ssh > worked: even thought I gave the command bash -c 'ulimit -a' as 3 separate > strings, Yes. > ssh (either the client or the server) actually concatenate them into > one, No. It isn't put into one stri

Re: ulimit and ssh?

Bob, Thanks for the quick reply! A local unix guru also told me the same thing. So, just to make sure I really understand this, here is how I understand ssh worked: even thought I gave the command bash -c 'ulimit -a' as 3 separate strings, ssh (either the client or the server) actually concate

Re: ulimit and ssh?

peter360 wrote: > Can someone explain this to me? Why am I not seeing correct results from > ulimit after ssh into localhost? Thanks! > > $ ssh localhost bash -c 'ulimit -a' > unlimited You have insufficiently quoted your argument to ssh. This is causing bash not to get "ulimit -a" but to get

ulimit and ssh?

Can someone explain this to me? Why am I not seeing correct results from ulimit after ssh into localhost? Thanks! $ ssh localhost bash -c 'ulimit -a' unlimited but $ bash -c 'ulimit -a' core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited scheduling priority

printf does not always display warning messages on write errors

Hi everybody. I found the following bug while running some of my bash scripts on GNU/Linux with stdout redirected to /dev/full, to see if write errors where correctly detected and reported. It turned out that, on write errors, the printf builtin correctly returns a non-zero status (thus my scrip

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