On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 09:22:53AM +0200, CARTER Alan wrote:
>>Whether you typed it yourself or not, those type of disclaimers are
>>actually not allowed in mail to mailing lists at this site:
>
>>http://sourceware.org/lists.html
>
>OK. I can't post. My mistake was attempting to make a suggestion
> Whether you typed it yourself or not, those type of disclaimers are
actually not allowed in mail to mailing lists at this site:
> http://sourceware.org/lists.html
OK. I can't post. My mistake was attempting to make a suggestion to a
person asking for help - which is more than you did. What a wa
Hi,
Mon, 28 Aug 2006 Russell Silva wrote:
> I am having a problem using Cygwin, variable assignment, and backticks
> when shell scripting. Occasionally, variables assigned using a
> backticked expression are not properly assigned; they are left empty.
> The problem appears to be non-deterministic
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 11:56:31AM -0400, Charli Li wrote:
>cgf wrote:
>>On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:04:08PM +0200, CARTER Alan wrote:
Hmm... 9 lines of content, 10 of disclaimer... *sip!* Eew, and the
disclaimer isn't even line-wrapped...
>>>
(How come PCYMTNILOAUD is not on the OLOCA
cgf wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:04:08PM +0200, CARTER Alan wrote:
>>>Hmm... 9 lines of content, 10 of disclaimer... *sip!* Eew, and the
>>>disclaimer isn't even line-wrapped...
>>
>>>(How come PCYMTNILOAUD is not on the OLOCA yet? ;-))
>>
>>Ah. You think I typed that, myself? I didn't.
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:04:08PM +0200, CARTER Alan wrote:
>>Hmm... 9 lines of content, 10 of disclaimer... *sip!* Eew, and the
>>disclaimer isn't even line-wrapped...
>
>>(How come PCYMTNILOAUD is not on the OLOCA yet? ;-))
>
>Ah. You think I typed that, myself? I didn't. It was automatica
> Hmm... 9 lines of content, 10 of disclaimer... *sip!*
> Eew, and the disclaimer isn't even line-wrapped...
> (How come PCYMTNILOAUD is not on the OLOCA yet? ;-))
Ah. You think I typed that, myself? I didn't. It was automatically
appended by the local email system. Many corporate email systems
CARTER Alan wrote:
In any case, it's pretty weird that bash randomly fails to spawn child
processes! It wreaks havoc on a number of my scripts.
Thought: Silent failure to spawn used to happen on some UNIX boxen when
the process table was full (or one slot remained and user != root).
Might some
> In any case, it's pretty weird that bash randomly fails to spawn child
processes! It wreaks havoc on a number of my scripts.
Thought: Silent failure to spawn used to happen on some UNIX boxen when
the process table was full (or one slot remained and user != root).
Might something like this be c
Dave Korn wrote:
> On 30 August 2006 20:50, Silva, Russell wrote:
>
>> I've tried to reproduce the problem on a different computer without
>> success. So, the problem appears to be specific to this particular
>> machine.
>
> I've tried it with latest CVS. Still can't reproduce.
>
>> Are there an
On 30 August 2006 20:50, Silva, Russell wrote:
> I've tried to reproduce the problem on a different computer without
> success. So, the problem appears to be specific to this particular
> machine.
I've tried it with latest CVS. Still can't reproduce.
> Are there any characteristics of my mac
ild
processes! It wreaks havoc on a number of my scripts.
Regards,
Russell
RE: Problem when using variable assignment, backticks in shell script
* From: "Dave Korn"
* To:
* Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:51:58 +0100
* Subject: RE: Problem when using variable assignment, back
Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted.
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Tristen Hayfield wrote:
> Brian Dessent wrote:
> > "Silva, Russell" wrote:
> >
> > > x=`/usr/bin/cat < temp`;
> >
> > I don't know what is causing your problem. I ran your testcase several
> > times and never saw a failure, but from your d
On 29 August 2006 22:00, Silva, Russell wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> I tried this; it's an excellent point but isn't the problem. I
> experimented using your script version and $? is indeed set to 0 when
> the backtick output is empty.
>
> I'd be happy to hear more suggestions. I also need to try thi
One may also do:
read x < temp
in bash
Tristen
Brian Dessent wrote:
"Silva, Russell" wrote:
x=`/usr/bin/cat < temp`;
I don't know what is causing your problem. I ran your testcase several
times and never saw a failure, but from your description it seems like
it's the kind of thing that m
"Silva, Russell" wrote:
> x=`/usr/bin/cat < temp`;
I don't know what is causing your problem. I ran your testcase several
times and never saw a failure, but from your description it seems like
it's the kind of thing that might occur very rarely.
My only suggestion is that if your true desire
Hi Dave,
I tried this; it's an excellent point but isn't the problem. I
experimented using your script version and $? is indeed set to 0 when
the backtick output is empty.
I'd be happy to hear more suggestions. I also need to try this on
another machine (my home box, perhaps) to see if it's re
On 29 August 2006 17:04, Silva, Russell wrote:
> The value of $? is always 0 when this problem occurs, even if it should
> be a non-zero value. For instance:
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # make 1000 attempts to reproduce the bug
> for i in `seq 1 1000`
> do
> # ls should return incorrect usage = erro
$ ls -asdfghjkl
ls: invalid option -- j
Try `ls --help' for more information.
$ echo $?
2
Regards,
Russell Silva
-Original Message-
From: Igor Peshansky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 5:25 PM
To: Silva, Russell
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Problem when
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Silva, Russell wrote:
> I am having a problem using Cygwin, variable assignment, and backticks
> when shell scripting. Occasionally, variables assigned using a
> backticked expression are not properly assigned; they are left empty.
> The problem appears to be non-deterministi
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