Marc Herbert wrote: > - removing the "-t" option from "read" dodges the immediate crash, but > not the memory corruption? So bash might still crash later? > > - in other words, triggering a trap from a command expansion will > always corrupt memory? (I mean: without your recent fix)
It is the specific combination of the assignment statement whose rhs contains a command substitution which causes a trap to be executed by the parent shell. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
