From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
Cc: 53355@debbugs.gnu.org, 51466@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51466: bug#53355: guix shell --check: confusing error message
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 12:17:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtdyif6j.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875ykpdsbd.fsf_-_@gmail.com> (Chris Marusich's message of "Sat, 25 Jun 2022 02:07:50 -0700")
Hi Chris,
Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> skribis:
> It turns out that it is probably not OK to rely on shell redirection in
> this case, after all. For example, "dash does not support multi-digit
> file descriptors":
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dash/+bug/249620
Bah. :-/
[...]
> To resolve this, I changed the code so that it just writes to a
> temporary file. This is simple and more robust. With the attached
> patch, I was able to use a command like the one above to verify that
> "guix environment --check" works correctly for Guix-built bash, dash,
> ksh, fish, zsh, and ash. I also verified that it works for Fedora's
> /bin/sh and /bin/bash.
>
> What do you think of this file-based approach? Supporting many
> different shells is pretty tricky, but I think this patch does a good
> enough job.
Like Maxime, I’d rather not create a temporary file.
I agree that Dash should be fixed, but in the meantime, we still want
our stuff to work with the broken Dash (it’s the default on
Debian/Ubuntu, isn’t it?).
I don’t have a better idea to offer though…
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-27 10:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-19 3:29 bug#53355: guix shell --check: confusing error message Chris Marusich
2022-01-24 14:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-01-25 0:55 ` Chris Marusich
2022-01-25 13:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-02 7:49 ` bug#51466: " Chris Marusich
2022-02-08 9:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-02-13 23:17 ` Chris Marusich
2022-02-14 9:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-03-08 19:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-05-20 21:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-05-24 4:42 ` Chris Marusich
2022-06-13 10:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-19 20:40 ` Chris Marusich
2022-06-20 7:34 ` bug#51466: " Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-20 10:12 ` bug#53355: " bokr
2022-06-20 17:56 ` Bengt Richter
2022-06-20 23:27 ` bug#51466: " Bengt Richter
2022-06-21 4:00 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-06-25 9:07 ` Chris Marusich
2022-06-25 9:37 ` bug#53355: bug#51466: " Maxime Devos
2022-06-25 16:52 ` Chris Marusich
2022-06-25 17:40 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-25 20:06 ` bug#51466: " bokr
2022-06-25 21:04 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-26 10:33 ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-06-26 13:07 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-26 19:45 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-06-27 10:17 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-06-27 10:34 ` bug#53355: bug#51466: " Maxime Devos
2022-06-28 7:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-28 10:38 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-28 16:57 ` bug#53355: " paren--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-06-28 17:31 ` bug#51466: " Maxime Devos
2022-07-04 8:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-27 11:23 ` bokr
2022-06-27 14:22 ` bug#51466: bug#53355: " Bengt Richter
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