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From: jrh@mustang.dell.com (Randy Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: SVR4 /bin/sh BUG
Message-ID: <20798@uudell.dell.com>
Date: 31 May 91 19:09:41 GMT
References: <1991May30.034223.29061@digibd.com> <1991May30.171404.23422@cbnewsl.att.com>
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In article <1991May30.171404.23422@cbnewsl.att.com>, urban@cbnewsl.att.com (john.urban) writes:
|> In article <1991May30.034223.29061@digibd.com> rick@digibd.com (Rick Richardson) writes:
|> >I'm posting this here in the hopes that the various
|> >vendors of SVR4 fix this in their next releases.
|> >Known to fail on AT&T, HCI, Commodore, and i860 SVR4's.
|> 
|> Your program DOES NOT FAIL on AT&T UNIX System V/386 Release 4.0 Version 2.1.
|> I verified that it works fine with the ksh and the sh.
|> 
|> Sincerely,
|> 
|> John Ben Urban

Well, that may be true, but the AT&T Release 4.0 Version 3.0 'reference port' 
or 'Test Engine' as it is sometimes called definitely DOES FAIL.  It is 
somewhat interesting that if you run it under ksh with: 'truss shbug' it will
also fail at the same point it does in sh.

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