Hi all, I am facing problem in bash 4.4 . In a function if first line is ‘If condition‘ and the function is called in background then the bash does not evaluate it properly
Following are the cross compiled machine details. MACHINE="arm" OS="linux-gnueabi" CC="arm-cortex_a9_v004-linux-gnueabi-gcc" CFLAGS=" -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='arm' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnueabi' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='arm-cortex_a9_v004-linux-gnuea bi' -DCONF_VENDOR='cortex_a9_v004' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/local/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -O2 -Wno-parentheses -Wno-format-security" RELEASE="4.4" PATCHLEVEL="19" RELSTATUS="release" MACHTYPE="arm-cortex_a9_v004-linux-gnueabi" file bash ========= bash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 3.4.0, not stripped bash --version =============== GNU bash, version 4.4.19(1)-release (arm-cortex_a9_v004-linux-gnueabi) Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html > This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law The following snippet is working fine in x86 processor machine not working in arm processor machine from bash 4.3 version onwards. test.sh ===== #!/bin/bash rm out.txt function abc() { if [ 2 -eq 1 ]; then echo "TRUE" else echo "FALSE" fi } abc & bash -x test.sh =========== + rm -f out.txt + abc + '[' 2 -eq 1 ']' + echo TRUE <---- Here we are expecting FALSE TRUE please provide some guidance on how to resolve the problem, let me know if problem statement is not clear. -- Lakshman
