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Re: [BUG] builtin echo doesn't check write error
- X-seq: zsh-workers 49044
- From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@xxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [BUG] builtin echo doesn't check write error
- Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2021 09:13:42 -0700
- Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/workers/49044>
- In-reply-to: <20210609140940.GA813383@zira.vinc17.org>
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- References: <20210609140940.GA813383@zira.vinc17.org>
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 7:10 AM Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> With zsh 5.8, the builtin echo doesn't check write error.
As others have noted, this is not specific to 5.8, it's been that way forever.
My (possibly poor) recollection is that this was made this way in part
for ports to environments that don't have a /dev/null device, but it
might just be this way because 1990s BSD csh behaves this way.
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