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From: kendall@wjh12.UUCP (Sam Kendall)
Newsgroups: net.bugs,net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Another bug in 4.2 lint argument parser; csh deficiency
Message-ID: <510@wjh12.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Sep-84 01:37:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: wjh12.510
Posted: Sat Sep  8 01:37:42 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Sep-84 19:11:34 EDT
Organization: Delft Consulting Corp., New York
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I've looked at the 4.2 lint shell script, and the problem with -I noted
by rlgvax!peter is not its only problem.  Some, ah, hacker rewrote
it from Bourne shell into C shell, adding the bug with -I, and also
adding the following problem: half the error messages go to stdout, and
the other half go to stderr, which is fun if you want to pipe the
messages to a file.  In the Bourne shell script this problem is
eliminated by the simple statement

	exec 2>&1

which, for you C shell enthusiasts out there, redirects stderr to stdout
for the remainder of the script--a thing which, as far as I can tell by
reading that 22-page manual page, cannot be done in the C shell.  Sorry
if I sound a little anti-C shell here; I just don't like 22-page manual
pages.

	Sam Kendall	  {allegra,ihnp4,ima,amd}!wjh12!kendall
	Delft Consulting Corp.	    decvax!genrad!wjh12!kendall