First of all, please fix your broken From header. It should be
b...@franklin.gtkcentral.net when you are addressing the wider Internet,
not ben@franklin.
On 2013-12-13 05:25:17 -0500, ben@franklin wrote:
> Description:
> The included scripts generate a "division by zero" and "recursion level
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: x86_64
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKA
One of the recent postings mentioned that http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
directed questions to bug-bash. We never updated the web page to
mention the new help-bash mailing list! I updated the web page to say
to send questions for help with bash to the help-bash list and bugs or
development iss
On 2/1/14, 7:35 PM, Geoff Nixon wrote:
> So having done some more playing around with this, I've found that when
> bash is configured and compiled with '--enable-strict-posix-default', this
> doesn't occur. I see this is documented in the change log for 4.3alpha, as:
>
> k. When compiled for s
On 2/1/14, 11:36 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> As reported at:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21500367/bash-for-loop-with-unsigned-integer
>
> I am getting a weird behavior in bash. Would it be possible for the
> next release of bash to not get a SIGSEV ?
Well, you're attempting to use
On 1/31/14, 7:09 PM, Peggy Russell wrote:
> Release 4.3.0(1)-rc2
>
> The help for "case", in the shell's builtin command "help", shows the
> operator ;; but not the operators ;& and ;;&.
>
> help case
Thanks for the report. There are a number of places where `help' is not
as comprehensive as
