Nick Hobson wrote:
> From: Nick Hobson
> To: bug-bash@gnu.org
> Subject: Bash crashes if you try to mapfile into an associative array
>
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i686
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686'
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu'
> -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -march=i686 -mtune=generic
> -O2 -pipe
> uname output: Linux localhost 2.6.31-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 13 13:36:23
> CEST 2009 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 550 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
> Bash Version: 4.0
> Patch Level: 33
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> If you declare an array to be associative and then try to mapfile (or
> readarray) into it, Bash crashes.
>
That's an incorrect use of `mapfile' -- mapfile takes an indexed array --
but the shell still shouldn't crash by assuming the variable is an
indexed array. I'll fix that for bash-4.1.
Chet
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