Re: Variable references (declare -n, "nameref") are limited to a depth of 8.

2020-04-25 Thread Andrej Podzimek
>> Description: >> >> While looking for a way to share a "cache" array with a recursive function >> call stack (using local -n (nameref)), I hit a well-known problem with >> "circular name reference" (which has been around for a long time). > > Yes, that's how it does loop detection. Ther

Re: Variable references (declare -n, "nameref") are limited to a depth of 8.

2020-04-25 Thread Chet Ramey
On 4/25/20 2:55 AM, andrej--- via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell wrote: > Bash Version: 5.0 > Patch Level: 16 > Release Status: release > > Description: > > While looking for a way to share a "cache" array with a recursive function > call stack (using local -n (nameref)), I hit a

Re: Unbuffered pipes: cases to be supported

2020-04-25 Thread Ángel
On 2020-04-23 at 20:20 -0400, Dale R. Worley wrote: > The cases I've found where bash allocates a pipe, and thus an unbuffered > pipe may be wanted, are: What are you trying to solve? How do you expect those "Unbuffered pipes" to be implemented? I don't think there is any buffering going on in the