Re: FIFO race condition on SunOS kernels

From	Clark Wang <dearvoid@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: FIFO race condition on SunOS kernels
Date	2019-01-03 10:48 +0800
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On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 8:38 PM Vladimir Marek <Vladimir.Marek@oracle.com>
wrote:

> >
> > Thanks, that's good to have confirmed! It was hoping as much -- it would
> > have been hard to believe that something this basic is broken on Solaris
> in
> > general.
>
> Heh :) I am heavy shell scripter/user and I have found multiple bugs in
> various shells. But I don't remember single issue with bash.
>

I've been using Bash for ~15 years (from v2.05 to v5.0) and only hit a few
bugs. I started using Ksh (ksh93 on Solaris 11+) in 2011 and reported ~40
bugs (for very basic features) in 1~2 years. I guess that's because ksh93
was not opensource before so there were not enough users testing it.

-clark

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Re: FIFO race condition on SunOS kernels Clark Wang <dearvoid@gmail.com> - 2019-01-03 10:48 +0800

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