Re: [PATCH] tests/portability: avoid spurious failure with OpenBSD's /bin/sh

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/08/2010 04:05 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> FYI, I needed this to avoid a test failure on OpenBSD 4.7.
>> Contrast these:
>>
>>      $ /bin/sh -c 'set -x; P=1 : 2>  err' 2>/dev/null; cat err
>>      + P=1
>>      $ bash -c 'set -x; P=1 : 2>  err' 2>/dev/null; cat err
>>      $
>
> Autoconf already documents that the order between 'set -v' or 'set -x'
> tracing and stderr redirections is indeterminate, and that you must be
> prepared to deal with traces in stderr in some but not all shells.  So
> your fix is the correct one.

Thanks for the review.
I've pushed it.