Bug#429021: builtin echo command redirection misbehaves in detached scripts when terminal is closed

To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>, Stephane Chazelas <Stephane_Chazelas@yahoo.fr>, Pierre-Philippe Coupard <pcoupard@skynet.be>, bug-bash@gnu.org, 429021@bugs.debian.org, chet@case.edu
Subject: Bug#429021: builtin echo command redirection misbehaves in detached scripts when terminal is closed
From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:57:34 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 46E5696E.9040406@case.edu>
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Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> writes:
> 
>> What's needed is a portable interface like BSD's fpurge(3).
> 
> This is also available from glibc as __fpurge (likewise on Solaris).

Yes, though I have an aversion to calling functions with a `__' prefix
from user application code.

However:

"These  functions  are  nonstandard  and  not  portable."

It would be nice to have something standardized.  I can certainly add
yet another configure test for this -- I just wish I didn't have to.

Chet

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
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- Bug#429021: builtin echo command redirection misbehaves in detached scripts when terminal is closed
  - From: Stephane Chazelas <Stephane_Chazelas@yahoo.fr>
- Bug#429021: builtin echo command redirection misbehaves in detached scripts when terminal is closed
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- Bug#429021: builtin echo command redirection misbehaves in detached scripts when terminal is closed
  - From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
- Bug#429021: builtin echo command redirection misbehaves in detached scripts when terminal is closed
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