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Re: bash-3.1-7 BUG


On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:58:36PM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote:
> > +#ifdef __CYGWIN__
> > +  /* lseek'ing on text files is problematic; lseek reports the true
> > +     file offset, but read collapses \r\n and returns a character
> > +     count.  We cannot reliably seek backwards if nr is smaller than
> > +     the seek offset encountered during the read, and must instead
> > +     treat the stream as unbuffered.  */
> > +  if ((bp->b_flag & (B_TEXT | B_UNBUFF)) == B_TEXT)
> ------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^      ^^^^^^
> part of the patch looks suspicious to me. You probably just want to test
> if the LHS expression is true.
> 
>   Volker

It's called a mask.

-cl

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