On 8/29/15 2:40 AM, isabella parakiss wrote:
> In the devel branch, setting IFS=\' seems to break @Q:
It actually causes a lot more than that to misbehave, and has for a
very long time. It looks like "'" is an uncommon IFS value. This
will be fixed for the next bash-4.4 testing release.
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Not a bug, so likely the wrong forum.
Have you tried doing a fflush() after the fputs()? I.e. something to tell
the Kernel to "write this out immediately!". In the case of write(), I
think you need to use the O_SYNC flag in the open() call.
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Robert Parker wrote:
A trivial script example that just works:
#!/bin/bash
# echo a prompt and write the user's response to a file.
echo "Enter variable name: "
read ans
echo "$ans" > tmpfil
echo "Enter variable type: "
read ans
echo "$ans" >> tmpfil
echo "Enter variable default value: "
read ans
echo "$ans" >> tmpfi
On 8/28/15 7:28 PM, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> Hello
>
> The bash-manual says:
>
> Words of the form $'string' are treated specially. The word expands to
> string, with backslash-escaped characters replaced as specified by the
> ANSI C standard. Backslash escape sequences, if present, are decod
On 8/28/15 7:52 PM, Oleg Popov wrote:
> Description:
> Function reset_alarm() in read.def first resets SIGALRM handler and
> then cancels alarm. Sometimes, SIGALRM comes between those 2 calls and
> crashes (sub)shell.
>
> Repeat-By:
> while sleep 0.00$RANDOM; do echo test;
On 8/30/15 9:41 AM, Poor Yorick wrote:
> It looked like a stray config.h from somewhere else might be getting picked
> up.
> Sure enough, making sure the project includes took precedence over any
> includes
> in CPPFLAGS solved the problem:
Thanks for the report, I'll take a look.
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