git-bisect: weird usage of read(1)

From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 11, 2008, 14:00 UTC
Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0808110700x595448fco46d24a3e6582d024@mail.gmail.com>

Hello

I found this in git bisect:

              printf >&2 'Are you sure [Y/n]? '
              case "$(read yesno)" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac

which looks very weird since read(1) returns a status and not the string reads from std input.

Am I missing something ?

Thanks

-- 
Francis

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