Re: active translators stdout/stderr

[Justus Winter]

Quoting Samuel Thibault (2016-02-22 16:53:21)
> Justus Winter, on Mon 22 Feb 2016 16:48:04 +0100, wrote:
> > > - When mounting the cdrom image from debian installer scripts, the
> > >   script is not considered finished since the isofs translator is still
> > >   running and possibly emitting output.
> > 
> > Shouldn't bla=$(blubb) only care for blubbs stdout?
> 
> Note: I haven't checked what it does exactly. It probably redirects
> stderr too.

No it doesn't:

root@hurdbox / # /bin/sh -c 'foo=$(echo bla>&2)'
bla
root@hurdbox / # /bin/bash -c 'foo=$(echo bla>&2)'
bla
root@hurdbox / # /bin/zsh -c 'foo=$(echo bla>&2)'
bla

Justus