Re: parallel-tests: work around Tru64/OSF 5.1 sh read bugs.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 06:31:21PM CET:
> > Thanks for writing the test case, and good job, it exposes the first
> > read issue.
> >
> Oh, I thought it exposed also the second one.  After all, if the
> shell bails out on a failed read, I'd expect the `$(TEST_SUITE_LOG)'
> file not to be created, and us to be left simply with the temporary
> file `$(TEST_SUITE_LOG).tmp'.  But maybe the Tru64/OSF 5.1 shell is
> one of those shell which execute a redirected compound command
> { ...; } in a subshell?

Yes, it is.

> In that case, the second `test -r' check
> wasn't really warrented (altough IMHO it's good to have it, for
> consistency), so no big deal not to have it covered.

Agreed.

Cheers,
Ralf