From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] builtin echo doesn't check write error
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2021 09:13:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7bVY_1Tedy1d1Yy55+XjbNAWdGJvMQ0mU+54+6xpAyoag@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210609140940.GA813383@zira.vinc17.org>
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 7:10 AM Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote:
>
> With zsh 5.8, the builtin echo doesn't check write error.
As others have noted, this is not specific to 5.8, it's been that way forever.
My (possibly poor) recollection is that this was made this way in part
for ports to environments that don't have a /dev/null device, but it
might just be this way because 1990s BSD csh behaves this way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-09 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-09 14:09 Vincent Lefevre
2021-06-09 14:17 ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-06-09 15:33 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-06-09 15:40 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-06-09 15:59 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-06-09 16:13 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2021-06-09 18:16 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-06-10 8:11 ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-06-24 8:47 ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-06-24 9:07 ` Vincent Lefevre
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