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documentation for "join" limitation on Solaris 8
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
documentation for "join" limitation on Solaris 8 |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:05:00 -0800 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
I installed this:
2005-01-13 Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document bug
in Solaris 8 join. Problem reported by Tomohiro Suzuki on
bug-tar mailing list.
--- autoconf.texi 5 Jan 2005 07:53:52 -0000 1.862
+++ autoconf.texi 13 Jan 2005 21:03:11 -0000 1.863
@@ -11675,6 +11675,24 @@ Don't rely on @option{-w}, as Irix 6.5.1
support it.
address@hidden @command{join}
address@hidden -----------------
address@hidden @command{join}
+Solaris 8 @command{join} has bugs when the second operand is standard
+input, and when standard input is a pipe. For example, the following
+shell script causes Solaris 8 @command{join} to loop forever:
+
address@hidden
+cat >file <<'EOF'
+1 x
+2 y
+EOF
+cat file | join file -
address@hidden example
+
+Use @samp{join - file} instead.
+
+
@item @command{ln}
@c ---------------
@prindex @command{ln}
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