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
> 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
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
> >&