On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 05:18:10PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> hi bash developers--
(...)
> a) use socketpair(2) or pipe(2) instead of making a tmpfile. this has
> the potential downside that the semantics of access to the remaining
> file descriptor would be subtly different from
hi bash developers--
I ran the following command to get a sense of how bash deals with here
strings under the hood:
strace -o tmp/bash.herestring.strace -f bash -c 'cat <<<"hello there"'
(i'm testing with bash 5.0-2 on debian testing/unstable).
It turns out that this creates a temporary fil
On 14/01/2019 15:00, Chet Ramey wrote:
On 1/14/19 6:51 AM, Jean-François Berroyer wrote:
Bash Version: 5.0
Patch Level: 0
Release Status: release
Description:
If a variable contains one '/' (or many)
and if this '/' is escaped with '\' by substitution mechanism
and if the escaped variable is c