On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: >> Machine Type: i386-unknown-openbsd4.4 >> >> Bash Version: 4.0 >> Patch Level: 0 >> >> Description: >> playing with the associative arrays, bash ends up in what appears >> to be a busy loop that I cannot interupt with C-c >> >> Repeat-By: >> >> >> bash-4.0$ declare -A array >> bash-4.0$ declare array["foo[bar"]=bleh >> bash-4.0$ array["foo"]=bleh > > You tricked the shell. Bash isn't smart enough to realize you're assigning > to an associative array, and performs quote removal on the assignment > before running `declare'. > > What ends up happening is that the shell tries to create a variable named > 'array[foo[bar]=bleh', since the dequoted word is no longer a valid > assignment statement. This leads to all sorts of weird behavior, since > some of the code's assumptions are violated. > > The attached patch should catch the attempts to create invalid variables > and flag them as errors. > > Chet > > > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > > Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/ > > Thanks, unfortunately it seems that this patch isn't enough as it also happens with a simpler test case:
bash-4.0$ declare -A array bash-4.0$ declare array[foo]=bar
