On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, Chet Ramey wrote:
On 3/11/19 4:55 PM, Todd Lehman wrote:
Hi!
In the version dated 2019-Jan-07, I noticed the following mistake in the
GNU Bash manual:
| Associative arrays are created using
| declare -A name.
The period (".") after "name" should not be there.
Is this th
On 3/11/19 4:55 PM, Todd Lehman wrote:
> Hi!
>
> In the version dated 2019-Jan-07, I noticed the following mistake in the
> GNU Bash manual:
>
> | Associative arrays are created using
> | declare -A name.
>
> The period (".") after "name" should not be there.
Is this the man page or the texinfo
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-redhat-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='redhat' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/loc
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 02:26:20PM -0700, L A Walsh wrote:
> How would that break compatibility?
The same way shellshock did. A function exported by a parent bash
process using format A could not be read by a child bash process expecting
format B.
Now, you may be thinking, "This makes no sense!