Re: Unreviewed patches (was Re: Freeze timing and questions)

[Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 09:10:45PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> It's syntactically correct.  When you redirect output, the shell
> redirects it for the subprocess. It doesn't always redirect its own
> output, which is where the "file not found" message comes from
> (depending on the shell).  With the parens, the shell is redirecting
> the output of another /bin/sh, and *that* /bin/sh is the one with the
> error message.

Oh, I see.

> So if you don't have a problem with the diagnostic messages going
> away, go ahead and approve it.  I don't see anything wrong with it.

Patch approved then.


r~