From: Samer Masterson <samer@samertm.com>
To: John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
Cc: 12689@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12689: 24.2; Eshell ${cmd} substitution
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2015 21:54:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1428296075.15170.2@mail.samertm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2twwtvqg1.fsf@newartisans.com>
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 9:19 PM, John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com> wrote
> I'm wondering what the rationale is for making this change?
The issue is that subprocesses that call external commands don't
wait for the command to complete before returning. For instance,
the following command:
$ echo ${/bin/echo "hi"}
returns nothing w/o the patch applied, where:
$ echo ${echo "hi"}
returns "hi".
-samer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-06 4:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-20 8:06 bug#12689: 24.2; Eshell ${cmd} substitution Aidan Gauland
2014-12-14 12:44 ` samer
2015-02-24 10:56 ` Samer Masterson
2015-03-03 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-04 12:14 ` Samer Masterson
2015-03-04 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-05 10:34 ` Samer Masterson
2015-04-06 3:41 ` Samer Masterson
2015-04-06 4:19 ` John Wiegley
2015-04-06 4:54 ` Samer Masterson [this message]
2022-02-09 9:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-09 19:01 ` Jim Porter
2022-02-09 20:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-03 3:52 ` Jim Porter
2022-05-03 10:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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