Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: BUG?: (or what's going on?) test for NL == NL fails (bash-4.3.39(3)-release) Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 14:26:31 +0200 Lines: 14 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <55BE6FB8.4080200@tlinx.org> <55BE7DD6.3040509@tlinx.org> <20150803115944.GE4309@eeg.ccf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1438604803 9419 208.118.235.17 (3 Aug 2015 12:26:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: Linda Walsh , bug-bash To: Greg Wooledge Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de X-Yow: Are we THERE yet? In-Reply-To: <20150803115944.GE4309@eeg.ccf.org> (Greg Wooledge's message of "Mon, 3 Aug 2015 07:59:44 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 195.135.220.15 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11287 Greg Wooledge writes: > (Testing for a character device gives false positives if stdout is a > tape drive or similar device.) Even /dev/null. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."