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poor error handling in "/bin/echo" and bash echo builtin
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John P. Looney |
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poor error handling in "/bin/echo" and bash echo builtin |
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Date: |
Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:53:36 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.4i |
Something that bit me today is that echo does not report back all error
conditions.
On a full filesystem, echo silently fails (leading the user to think
there is wierd disk problems, until the disk free is checked).
This is certainly the case on sh-utils 2.0 (RedHat Linux 7.1 i386), and
bash 2.04 (same OS).
John
- poor error handling in "/bin/echo" and bash echo builtin,
John P. Looney <=