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Re: Broken PIPESTATUS with --disable-job-control
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Broken PIPESTATUS with --disable-job-control |
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Sun, 18 Sep 2016 21:04:40 -0400 |
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On 9/17/16 1:27 PM, Felix Janda wrote:
> Hello,
>
> below this mail you can find a minimal script misbehaving when
> job-control is configured out (tested on linx with different archs,
> libc's, and versions (including current git)).
Yes. PIPESTATUS doesn't really have any valid values when the shell
is compiled without job control. The internal machinery to set it
doesn't exist.
>
> Notice that the configure script disables job-control when a run-time
> test (which could easily be a built-time test) fails. So by default,
> a cross-compiled bash will have this bug.
Which test?
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