Probably a bug in ash

[Natanael Copa]

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 17:10 +0200, Seb wrote:
> Le Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:18:32 -0400
> Paul Fox <pgf at brightstareng.com> a écrit:
> 
> > wh wrote:
> >  > Hi seb,
> >  > yes the mail was received but noone had time sofar to
> >  > investigate the problem
> > 
> > further info:
> > whoever takes a look at this; the problem is even worse than
> > originally described.  piping the output of "jobs" loses the
> > output entirely, while piping the output of "jobs %1" causes an
> > erroneous error message.
> > 
> >     BusyBox v1.7.0.svn (2007-07-05 13:13:46 EDT) built-in shell (ash)
> >     Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
> > 
> >     $ sleep 3600 &
> >     $ sleep 700
> > (typed ^Z here)
> >     [2] + Stopped                    sleep 700
> >     $ jobs
> >     [2] + Stopped                    sleep 700
> >     [1] - Running                    sleep 3600
> > (two jobs)
> >     $ jobs | cat
> >     $ jobs | tr a-z A-Z
> > (note missing output)

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> Ok, I just wanted to be sure. Thanks for the confirmation and the
> additionnal informations. :)
> 
> Do you think I should also make a parallel bug report to dash ? (it's
> not to put you under pressure -- I well see you have many other things
> to fix here and this bug can wait -- but just to try to be more "useful"
> without bothering you nor being unpolite).

I tested on dash and yes, the bug is there too. Reporting it to dash
sounds like a good idea.

Natanael Copa