Hi, I have a minor issue with the newest bash-3.2-33.el5_11.4 (RedHat) package. Same happens on Debian Wheezy (unfortunately I do not know that version number now).
I usually define in my .bash_profile some functions called "..", "...", "...." and so on. After the latest package was installed I continuously get error messages shown above when I start a (sub-)bash from the login bash: bash: error importing function definition for `BASH_FUNC_..' bash: error importing function definition for `BASH_FUNC_...' bash: error importing function definition for `BASH_FUNC_....' etc... And these functions cannot be used in the child bash. But no problem is shown when bash is a login shell (called as "bash -l") and the definition is read from the .bash_profile. My bash function family is defined in my .bash_profile similar to bellow lines .. (){ command cd ../"$1";} ... (){ command cd ../../"$1";} .... (){ command cd ../../../"$1";} export -f .. ... .... In all previous versions this worked well, so I could go to the parent directory typing ".." instead of "cd ..". Is it by design or just an unforeseen side effect of the bug fix? *** Version number of Bash: $ bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) $ rpm -qa|grep bash bash-3.2-33.el5_11.4 *** The hardware and operating system: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo ... model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz $ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga) *** The compiler used to compile Bash: ??? *** A description of the bug behavior: See above description *** A short script or 'recipe' which exercises the bug and may be used to reproduce it: $ ,,() { echo TEST;} $ export -f ,, $ ,, TEST $ bash bash: error importing function definition for `BASH_FUNC_,, $ ,, bash: ,,: command not found Thank You in advance! Kind regards, Tamás Tajthy ________________________________ This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipients and may contain proprietary and/or confidential information which may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy the original message and any copies of the message as well as any attachments to the original message. Local registered entity information: http://www.msci.com/legal/local_registered_entities.html