Bug 87093 – bash read-builtin does not work with "-u <pipe>" other than zero

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Michael Haubenwallner (RETIRED) 2005-03-29 03:40:05 UTC]

While porting current portage-cvs to Solaris, the ebuild-daemon did not work
as expected. I've found the problem in bash when using 'read -u <fd>', with
fd other than zero. See the URL to the bug-bash list at lists.gnu.org.
I'm not sure when bash-maintainers create a new release, so please create
a new bash-2.05b-rX.ebuild (and even bash-3.0).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install current portage-cvs on Solaris, or another test program which communicates with bash over pipes. You can get mine if you want.
2. Start this with 'truss -t read' and see that bash reads from pipe with
bufsize 128 instead of 1.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2005-03-29 07:46:17 UTC]

where's the patch ?

[Comment 2 Michael Haubenwallner (RETIRED) 2005-03-29 19:57:37 UTC]

Previous Message of URL above:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2005-03/msg00168.html

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2005-03-29 20:13:18 UTC]

that'll do it

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2005-03-29 21:11:04 UTC]

fixed with bash-3.0-r9

[Comment 5 Michael Haubenwallner (RETIRED) 2005-03-30 06:45:53 UTC]

can you fix this with bash-2.05b too or does bash-3.0 become marked stable soon
for several archs ?

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2005-03-30 07:28:00 UTC]

bash-3 will go stable eventually