-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 6/28/2009 1:24 AM: > * Eric Blake wrote on Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 04:01:15PM CEST: >> According to Ralf Wildenhues on 6/25/2009 9:18 PM: >>> * Jan Madzik wrote on Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 06:48:37PM CEST: >>>> I found bug in korn shell (version M-11/16/88f) on AIX 6.1 (tested >>>> only on one server instance) and due to this bug I couldn't correctly >>>> configure ImageMagick. >>> Confirmed on AIX 5.3, thanks for the bug report. >>> >>> This patch should be sufficient to fix this instance of the bug, but >>> it's still lacking a testsuite and documentation addition. >> So how exactly do you describe the bug? Using 'echo \c' inside a command >> substitution corrupts state until the next command substitution echo? > > Yes, I think that's what it is.
Let's get that documented, then, before approving this patch, although I'd like to see the fix go in before 2.64. > More generally though, I'd > be wary of uses of ECHO_C within command substitutions, as the > substitution will strip off a trailing newline anyway, so it shouldn't > be a wide-spread problem. True enough, and worth mentioning as part of the documentation. I don't have access to an AIX machine, so I'm trusting your patch has been properly tested. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpJkNsACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAlbwCfc0TwLNnuEmKQjNsVTib68n4T jO0An1/Spz3rnH0rceSOfk+2ZcOZZ7fn =b/hM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
