Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.24: OpenBSD testsuite failures

[Frank Middleton]

On 10/27/10 19:38, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Ah!  Thanks.  The light dawns.  So my test was too strict.  Can people
> please try the following test instead?  This parenthesizes the ":", so
> that the shell need not preserve the stdin fd.
>
>     if (ulimit -n 10&&  (:)<&-) 2>/dev/null
>     then echo OK
>     else echo Houston we have a problem
>     fi

FWIW running OpenSolaris snv134, it works with bash, zsh and
/usr/has/bin/sh. /bin/sh, /usr/bin/sh (both aliased to ksh93),and
/usr/bin/ksh, all fail. Not cc'd to tar-list since I'm not subscribed.

HTH -- Frank