PR/40250 CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/pipestatus

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/40250; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%gnats.NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: PR/40250 CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/pipestatus
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:47:02 +0000

 Module Name:   pkgsrc
 Committed By:  wiz
 Date:          Wed Mar 10 23:47:02 UTC 2010
 
 Update of /cvsroot/pkgsrc/devel/pipestatus
 In directory ivanova.netbsd.org:/tmp/cvs-serv21521
 
 Log Message:
 Initial import of pipestatus-0.6.0, packaged for wip by Aleksey Cheusov.
 Addresses PR 40250.
 
 pipestatus - source file for POSIX shell that allows
 to obtain an exit status of every program in a pipe.
 
                         MOTIVATION
 
 When we program in shell we often run pipes like this
 
     prog1 args1 | prog2 args2 | ... | progN argsN
 
 POSIX says that exit status of pipe is the exit status of LAST program
 in it, i.e.  progN in our example. That is, exit status of all other
 programs in pipe is silently ignored.  But in many situations exit
 status of all programs in pipe should be checked to make program
 robust. Some shells like BASH and ZSH have special extensions for
 doing this but POSIX shell unfortunately doesn't provide an EASY way
 for doing this.
 
 In order to solve the problem, described above pipestatus was written.
 
 Status:
 
 Vendor Tag:    TNF
 Release Tags:  pkgsrc-20100311
                
 N pkgsrc/devel/pipestatus/Makefile
 N pkgsrc/devel/pipestatus/DESCR
 N pkgsrc/devel/pipestatus/distinfo
 N pkgsrc/devel/pipestatus/PLIST
 
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