Re: Fwd: read -n is confused by \

2006-01-27 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Brett Kail wrote: Hello, This is a resend of a message I sent back in May since I never received a reply to that message. [] Description: If the nth character of read -n is a \, then bash reads one too many characters. Repeat-By: echo 'abc\abc' | (read -n 4; ec

Re: a kill -TERM causes the EXIT trap to be executed

2006-01-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-01-26 23:34:31 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > An EXIT trap is executed when the process is killed, e.g. by the > > SIGTERM signal, which breaks traditional sh compatibility > > A lot of POSIX required behavior breaks traditional Bourne sh > compatibility. I know