Re: [announce] small skarnet.org Spring 2024 update

From: Alex Kiernan <alex.kiernan_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:40:16 +0100

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 7:58 PM Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware_at_skarnet.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> New versions of some skarnet.org packages are available.
> A very light update this time, just keeping the lights on.
>
> skalibs-2.14.1.1 (release)
> execline-2.9.5.0 (minor)
> s6-2.12.0.4 (release)
> tipidee-0.0.4.0 (minor)
>
> skalibs and s6 get tiny bugfixes.
>
> Alongside minor bugfixes as well, the execline release makes
> backtick add its child's exit code to the ? environment variable
> (as foreground does) when used with an option making it continue
> when the child fails.
>

I have a weird failure with backtick after upgrade, with this execline
script (we're building with multicall, if that's relevant):

#!/usr/bin/execlineb -P

backtick -E A_LONGISH_NAME { s6-echo foo }

It fails with:

multisubstitute: usage: see
http://skarnet.org/software/execline/multisubstitute.html

if you make the variable name one character longer it fails differently:

backtick: fatal: unable to exec awn a block as your loop body?: No
such file or directory

-- 
Alex Kiernan
Received on Tue Apr 16 2024 - 16:40:16 CEST

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