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From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
To: Sven Mascheck <mascheck@in-ulm.de>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] sh: cmd | >file
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 21:41:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200104204117.5Oo-9%steffen@sdaoden.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200104005350.GA156384@lisa.in-ulm.de>

Sven Mascheck via TUHS wrote in <20200104005350.GA156384@lisa.in-ulm.de>:
 |On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 06:18:00PM +0100, markus schnalke wrote:
 |> [2020-01-03 11:03] "Brian Zick" <brian@zick.io>
 |>> I'm curious to know if you have a script you used to prove these \
 |>> correct?
 |> 
 |> We have to wait for Sven Mascheck to answer this question. He tested
 |> the different shells.
 |
 |I guess Brian meant Steffen. I have no idea what Steffen meant with "proved
 |correct".

It was a citation, maybe too sloppy.

 |(and I believe Gunnar was not motivated to guarantee his heirloom port
 |to compete in production environments against modern shell variants with
 |continued maintenance, yet tried hard that time to find and fix as \
 |many bugs
 |as possible; I tried to help him a little bit that time. Just consider how

That is what "is flowing out behind me", overall.

 |much still had been fixed by Sun even after their SVR4 sh. more corner case
 |bugs to be expected...)

I did not throw doubt on this.  I think he achieved a lot in
Heirloom tools and especially roff in only four years i think,
starting in 2004.  The sh has this ": > FILE" bug, which sometimes
shows up.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-04 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-03 12:45 markus schnalke
2020-01-03 14:00 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-03 17:03   ` Brian Zick
2020-01-03 17:18     ` markus schnalke
2020-01-04  0:53       ` Sven Mascheck via TUHS
2020-01-04 20:41         ` Steffen Nurpmeso [this message]
2020-01-03 19:38 ` markus schnalke
2020-01-03 19:44   ` Warner Losh
2020-01-03 22:49     ` Michael Parson
2020-01-03 23:32   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-04  2:58 Doug McIlroy
2020-01-04 10:07 ` markus schnalke
2020-01-04 11:47   ` Robert Clausecker
2020-01-04 22:31     ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-04 21:02   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-04 21:06     ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-05  0:03       ` Eric Allman
2020-01-05  1:49         ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-05  2:44           ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-05  8:15             ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-05 15:16               ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-04 21:11     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-04 21:39       ` Warner Losh
2020-01-04 22:19         ` Terry Jones
2020-01-04 22:33           ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-04 23:53             ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-05  0:04               ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2020-01-05  2:41               ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-05 13:45                 ` Sven Mascheck via TUHS
2020-01-05 15:18                   ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-05 21:21                 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-06 13:53                   ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-06 15:42                     ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-06 15:46                       ` arnold
2020-01-06 16:13                         ` Clem Cole
2020-01-06 20:44                           ` arnold
2020-01-06 20:51                             ` Steve Nickolas
2020-01-06 21:32                             ` Clem Cole
2020-01-06 21:39                               ` Brad Spencer
2020-01-06 21:29                         ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-06 21:55                           ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-06 22:22                             ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-06 22:52                             ` Dan Cross
2020-01-07  0:50                             ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-06 22:10                           ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-04 22:44           ` markus schnalke
2020-01-04 23:01             ` Terry Jones
2020-01-04 22:22         ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-06  3:24 Brian Walden
2020-01-06 15:42 ` Richard Salz
2020-01-06 15:45   ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-06 16:11 Brian Walden
2020-01-06 16:33 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-06 19:47 Doug McIlroy
2020-01-07  4:49 Brian Walden
2020-01-07  5:03 Brian Walden

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