Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:36:04 -0800 From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: Steve Price <steve@FreeBSD.org>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Re: cvs commit: ports/print/apsfilter Makefile ports/print/apsfilter/files patch-bin::aps2file ports/print/apsfilter/scripts pre-configure Message-ID: <20011217113604.A63493@johncoop.MSHOME> In-Reply-To: <20011217201850.A21347@student.uu.se>; from ertr1013@student.uu.se on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 11:18:50 -0800 References: <200112171847.fBHIlbP69769@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011217130555.J72144@bsd.havk.org> <20011217201850.A21347@student.uu.se>
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On 2001.12.17 11:18 Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 01:05:55PM -0600, Steve Price wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:47:37AM -0800, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> > > Log:
> > > Unluckily FreeBSD's shell isn't able to read from/write to
> /dev/stdin
> > > and stdout.
> >
> > Perhaps I missed the discussion somewhere else but can you please
> > explain what this means and give an example of a short script that
> > doesn't work with /bin/sh?
>
> Just try the following command:
>
> echo "hello" > /dev/stdout
>
It works with tcsh/csh (which happens to be the default root shell on
FreeBSD).
>
> If you use tcsh or zsh (or presumably bash but I haven't tried that)
> this
> will indeed output "hello" to stdout.
> If you use /bin/sh it will instead complain that it cannot create
> /dev/stdout.
>
> This is probably a bug in /bin/sh
>
> >
> > > Therefore we have to use bash as shell for
> /usr/local/bin/aps2file
> > > program.
> >
> > You don't *have* to use bash. You could probably get away with
> using
> > zsh or a number of other shells. Personally and maybe I'm the only
> > one but I'd like to see all of the ports that require bash be
> changed
> > to use zsh instead because I've got that on most all of my systems
> > already. :)
>
> Yes, that would be nice :-), but I think that bash is somewhat more
> standards-compliant than zsh.
> (As I understand it the bash-developers try fairly hard to make sure
> bash
> follows the POSIX standard. The zsh developers don't care all that
> much
> about it.)
>
>
> --
> <Insert your favourite quote here.>
> Erik Trulsson
> ertr1013@student.uu.se
>
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