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

[Joerg Schilling]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

> [adding bug-autoconf]
>
> On 10/27/2010 01:01 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > On 10/27/10 07:31, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> >> This produces "too many files open in shell" right away:
> >>
> >> ulimit -n 10; : <&-
> > 
> > Ah, OK.  Does the following output "buggy shell", then?
> > 
> > if (ulimit -n 10; : <&-) 2>/dev/null
> > then echo OK
> > else echo Houston we have a problem
> > fi
>
> I just tested on OpenBSD 4.7, FreeBSD 8.1, and MirBSD 10; that reports
> failure for all three of those distros.  However, it also reports
> failure for dash 0.5.5.1 and latest dash.git, as well as pdksh.  So the
> bug is pretty much inherited by all ash derivatives.
>
> It passes on bash, zsh, Solaris /bin/sh, and ksh93.

What do you understand by "passing"?

bash and sh exit and ksh93 writes an error message

This is what happens if fd moving no longer works.

Jörg

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