Re: PATCH: compdump (Re: Test hanger disappeared, but ...)

[Peter Stephenson <pws@cambridgesiliconradio.com>]

Sven wrote:
> That's interesting... For example, with
> 
>   while true; do echo > unwritable; sleep 1; done
> 
> zsh stops after the first attempt. bash and ksh don't stop and the
> /bin/sh here stops after the first attempt, too.
> 
> With
> 
>   while true; do echo $(for); sleep 1; done
> 
> zsh stops (and prints two error messages!), bash does not stop, but
> ksh and /bin/sh do.

These are all perfectly arguable.  In the second case, it's only because
parsing is done before the fork that the shell actually gives up.  If you
attempted to write to an unwritable file in the $(...) it wouldn't stop.  I
don't have any conclusion.

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