Re: Bug report + feature request

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

>    ls -l /tmp/z   3>&1 1>&2 2>&3 | while read line ;do echo ":: "$line; done
>    
>    total 16
>    -rw-r--r--   1 sbeck    apps         396 Oct  5 13:44 foo
>    :: total 16
>    :: -rw-r--r--   1 sbeck    apps         396 Oct  5 13:44 foo
> 
> Notice that in the 3rd section, the output from the command ends up on
> both STDOUT and STDERR.  All other shells (ksh, sh, bash) that I tested
> give the correct output for the 3rd case:
> 
>    total 16
>    -rw-r--r--   1 sbeck    apps         396 Oct  5 13:44 foo

That's not a bug, it's due to zsh's `multios' feature, where a repeated
mention of an fd means that it should be used twice:  on input this does
cat, and on output it does tee.  In this case fd 1 is used for copying to 2
and as a pipe, so stdout goes to both.  You need to `setopt nomultios' to
turn this off.

It's about time we had a `no_pipe_multios' option --- this gets so many
people (including me, before now).

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Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
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