From: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:18:33 GMT
Subject: Re: git-bisect: weird usage of read(1)
Message-ID: <48A06659.6010004@lsrfire.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <38b2ab8a0808110657y24ac9526wca4acea3bddaec00@mail.gmail.com>

Francis Moreau schrieb:
> 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.

Good catch.  You need to press Ctrl-C in order to exit, answering "no"
means the same as "yes" here -- not very nice.  Care to send a patch?

Thanks,
René