bsdutils: /usr/bin/script doesn't wait for command to finish before exiting

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 18:58 -0400, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> Package: bsdutils
> Version: 1:2.12r-4ubuntu6.1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> 
> The script command fails to wait for the command that it is executing to finish.
> For example, the command
> 
>   /usr/bin/script -c "sleep 1; echo foo" < /dev/null; echo bar
> 
> produces the output
> 
>   Script started, file is typescript
>   Script done, file is typescript
>   bar
>   foo

It is the I/O redirection from /dev/null which is the culprit.  Without
it the commands run in sequence correctly.  With the /dev/null redirect,
it appears the subshell forked by 'script' runs in the background from
the parent shell.
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