From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 10 20:59:50 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98A1DAAD; Fri, 10 May 2013 20:59:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: from outgoing.tristatelogic.com (segfault.tristatelogic.com [69.62.255.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C48B876; Fri, 10 May 2013 20:59:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from segfault-nmh-helo.tristatelogic.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by segfault.tristatelogic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFD263AF57; Fri, 10 May 2013 13:59:49 -0700 (PDT) From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: bin/152154: script(1) -k malfunctions with certain shells (e.g. tcsh, bash, zsh) Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 13:59:49 -0700 Message-ID: <87178.1368219589@server1.tristatelogic.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 10 May 2013 22:00:50 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 20:59:50 -0000 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/152154 It has been suggested to me (by a committer) that I should raise the issue of this PR here on these lists, because the problem described within the PR remains a real problem, and despite my having proposed something that seems to be a perfectly workable fix, no action has been taken on this PR for some years now. Regards, rfg P.S. The following additional PRs, also filed by me and also relating to the script(1) command, supply some additional improvements to efficiency and code clarity. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/152131 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/152132