minor bug in bash

2012-01-17 Thread Zachary Miller
hello, i would like to report a what i believe to be a minor bug in bash 4.2 that has to do with file redirection: in redir.c:356 (function write_here_document()), this block of code: if (write (fd, document, document_len) < document_len) { if (errno == 0) err

Re: minor bug in bash

2012-01-17 Thread Zachary Miller
> Thanks for the report. As a practical matter, this doesn't present a > problem. When writing to a regular file, with no special flags supplied > to open(), the only cases Posix says it can return fewer bytes than > specified are errors. thank chet. i figured that may be the case. if you woul

Re: minor bug in bash

2012-01-17 Thread Zachary Miller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:18:00PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 1/17/12 10:05 PM, Zachary Miller wrote: > >> Thanks for the report. As a practical matter, this doesn't present a > >> problem. When writing to a regular file, with no special flags supplied > >&