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authorEric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>2009-08-17 12:09:04 -0600
committerEric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>2009-08-24 19:44:00 -0600
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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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@@ -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.