Re: [Nmh-workers] Hanging test test/install-mh/test-version-check

[David Levine]

Ralph wrote:

> I'm not sure why script(1) is run in the background and then immediately
> wait'd for;  is it to just get </dev/null?  What about if it's given a
> byte or few of input without wait-ing?  echo | ...

The test originally did that, but 1) the man page on Linux cautions against
it, as shown by the excerpts that Ken posted, and 2) it failed on two of
the buildbot hosts.  It still fails on those two buildbot hosts (using
$SHELL), so that's not a factor.  I just didn't change it back because of 1).
If piping stdin works, I'm fine with it.

David