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| author | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2009-08-17 12:09:04 -0600 |
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| committer | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2009-08-24 19:44:00 -0600 |
| commit | f6e75bf0240fbf2b4e7f5dfc7d70de546241bbdd (patch) | |
| tree | 2d24ff14e2312a597fe5416ca0b12b178efaeb02 /NEWS | |
| parent | db2b33bf92064729e8efde7f3342c3ee8014032d (diff) | |
| download | m4-f6e75bf0240fbf2b4e7f5dfc7d70de546241bbdd.tar.gz | |
Pick up gnulib fixes for sub-process execution.
* gnulib: Update.
* tests/others.at (stdin and stdout closed): New test, to avoid
regression introduced on 1.4 branch on 2008-07-17.
* NEWS: Document the change.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
(cherry picked from commit d3237b2af19c80fc80218fd33eb64266be510be8)
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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -338,7 +338,11 @@ contains the following beta features that were deemed worth deferring until * Noteworthy changes in Version 1.4.14 (2009-??-??) [stable] Released by Eric Blake, based on git version 1.4.13.* -** Fix regression introduced in 1.4.13 in the `esyscmd' builtin, where +** Fix regression introduced in 1.4.12 where executing with stdout closed + could crash m4 on exit on some platforms. + +** Fix regressions introduced in 1.4.13 in the `esyscmd' builtin, where + closed file descriptors could interfere with child execution, and where a child status of 127 made m4 print a spurious message to stderr. ** A number of portability improvements inherited from gnulib. |