Re: Fwd: Behavior change in Dash pipes/read?

Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Wed, 4 Feb 2026 17:16:50 +0800
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.dash
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Jyri-Matti Lähteenmäki <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The results are as attachments. But
> https://github.com/Mic92/strace-macos says it doesn't follow forks, so
> I guess the interesting parts are missing?
> Running /nix/store/wy9ass74g4yc1x354ydbdlxkfkxxjv2x-dash-0.5.13.1/bin/dash
> -c 'echo hello > hello; { read -r x; echo "$x"; } < hello' seems to
> work correctly.

OK try running strace inside the script:

echo hello | strace /path/to/dash -c 'read -r x; echo "$x"'

Thanks,
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