On 4/19/12 8:26 AM, Peter Maloney wrote:
> Dear bash guys,
>
> Bashbug interface was COMPLETELY useless. The emacs quit key didn't work.
> There were no instructions. It didn't even tell me it was emacs so I could
> go look it up. I had to find that out elsewhere. Eventually it wouldn't
> even let me edit, saying the buffer is read only. What the hell were you
> thinking? Why not use the EDITOR variable? That's what it's for! Not
> everyone knows how to use every editor.
If you were to look at the bashbug script, you would see that it does
use $EDITOR to edit the temporary file. If that variable's not set,
it looks for $DEFEDITOR and tries to choose an intelligent default if
it doesn't find either.
> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 10
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> Running the following script crashes bash with exit code 141. The
> problem occurs on this openSuSE machine, and on FreeBSD with bash
> 4.1.10, and on Ubuntu with bash 4.1.5.
>
> Repeat-By: (2 line script, this email thing split it in 3)
> foo() { while IFS='' read -r line; do echo "$(date) $line" >>
> file.txt; done; };
>
> exec 2> >(foo)
I can't reproduce the crash with bash-4.2, bash-4.1, or bash-4.0 (with
all the official patches applied to each version) on Mac OS X, RHEL 5,
Ubuntu 10, Solaris 8, or Solaris 10. How about a stack traceback from
the crash on one of your systems?
Chet
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
