Re: new redirection operator seems broken

[Pierre Gaston]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> I wonder if I should modify it so the implicit 2>&1 happens first, right
> after the pipe, so any user-specified redirections can override it.  That
> doesn't seem that radical a change.  Opinions?  (I know what you think,
> Andreas ;-) ).

If i understand correctly it will only change something if you do:

   command [n]>&2 |& command

As this is not a useful construct , I think that it is most likely
going to be used
only by people wanting to  experiment with |&   that are going to
sendbug reports
because the result is not what you would expect because it's not consistent
with "command 2>&1 >& command."

On the other hand zsh, after you disable multios,  seems to behave
like bash does
now ...

I personally vote for changing it.
(Though I'm not really a big fan of  |& anyway,  that's so different
from ksh |&....)

As an aside the CHANGES file talks about >>& while in fact only &>> has been
 implemented.


my 2 cents...
Pierre