On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 02:22:08AM +0200, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10 2022, Scott Cheloha <scottchel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [...] > > > > 1. Our ksh(1) already checks for stdout errors in the echo builtin. > > So do any of the scripts in our source tree use /bin/echo for whatever > reason? If so, could one of these scripts be broken if /bin/echo > started to report an error? Shouldn't those scripts be reviewed?
I didn't look. There are... hundreds files that look like shell scripts in src. $ cd /usr/src $ find . -exec egrep -l '\#.*\!.*sh' > ~/src-shell-script-paths $ wc -l ~/src-shell-script-paths 1118 /home/ssc/src-shell-script-paths A lot of them are in regress/. I guess I better start looking.