Re: read -q broken on OSX / BSD?

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

On Jan 6, 11:06am, Yaniv Aknin wrote:
} Subject: read -q broken on OSX / BSD?
}
} I'm running % read -q, and then typing a single character which
} isn't y, Y or n. However, the value set in $REPLY isn't n, it is the
} character I typed.

This is apparently version-dependent rather than platform-dependent.
It got changed by workers/27188 back in July 2009, but nobody noticed,
which pretty much tells you that read -q was mainly being used for its
exit status and not for what it returned.

Index: Src/builtin.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Src/builtin.c,v
retrieving revision 1.268
diff -u -r1.268 builtin.c
--- Src/builtin.c	8 Nov 2012 16:50:42 -0000	1.268
+++ Src/builtin.c	6 Jan 2013 18:40:37 -0000
@@ -5490,6 +5490,9 @@
 		eof = 2;
 	    else
 		eof = (bptr - buf != 1 || (buf[0] != 'y' && buf[0] != 'Y'));
+	    buf[0] = eof ? 'n' : 'y';
+	    buf[1] = 0;
+	    bptr = buf+2;
 	}
 	if (OPT_ISSET(ops,'e') || OPT_ISSET(ops,'E'))
 	    fwrite(buf, bptr - buf, 1, stdout);



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Barton E. Schaefer