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From: jlitvin@morticia.intel.com (John Litvin ~)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: SVR4 /bin/sh BUG
Message-ID: <JLITVIN.91May31095523@morticia.intel.com>
Date: 31 May 91 16:55:23 GMT
References: <1991May30.034223.29061@digibd.com>
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In-reply-to: urban@cbnewsl.att.com's message of 30 May 91 17:14:04 GMT


  >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

The program DOES indeed fail on AT&T UNIX System V/386 Release 4.0 Version 3.0.
I verified that the Bourne shell does fail the test.

Sincerely,

John Litvin

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Script started on Fri May 31 09:55:55 1991
$ uname -a
jade jade 4.0 3.0 i386 386/AT
$ sh /tmp/bug
root:x:0:1:0000-Admin(0000):/:
root:x:0:1:0000-Admin(0000):/:
root:x:0:1:0000-Admin(0000):/:

$ ksh /tmp/bug
root:x:0:1:0000-Admin(0000):/:
root:x:0:1:0000-Admin(0000):/:
root:x:0:1:0000-Admin(0000):/:
root:x:0:1:0000-Admin(0000):/:
$

script done on Fri May 31 09:56:08 1991

John Litvin
jlitvin@morticia.intel.com