Re: bash-3.2 multibyte behavior on Solaris

2009-06-27 Thread Chet Ramey
Jan Hnatek wrote: > > Chet Ramey wrote: >> So what does the Solaris mbrtowc return in this case? The flow of that >> particular section of code isn't that great (bash-4.0 is better), but it >> seems to me that point can only increase. If mbrtowc returns -2, the >> loop won't be entered at all. >

Re: bash 4.x filters out environmental variables containing a dot in the name

2009-06-27 Thread Jan Schampera
Christian Krause wrote: > Given all of these facts I still tend to say that the bash shouldn't > filter them... There's always the following argument: "Other characters may be permitted by an implementation; applications shall tolerate the presence of such names." I agree with Christian here. A

Re: bash 4.x filters out environmental variables containing a dot in the name

2009-06-27 Thread Stephane CHAZELAS
2009-06-26, 13:58(+02), Christian Krause: > Hi Chet, > > Thanks for the answers. The problem is now, that this behavior of the > bash creates some real problems outside, probably with a larger impact. > Before asking the kernel developers to change parts of linux kernel's > build system, I'd like t