Re: segfault on initial word completion

On Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 10:23 Chet Ramey wrote: > On 4/18/23 6:15 PM, Grisha Levit wrote: > > $ bash --rcfile <(echo 'complete -C: -I') -i <<<$'; \cA\t' > > bash-5.2$ bash: xmalloc: cannot allocate 18446744073709551615 bytes > > $ bash --rcfile <(echo 'complete -C: -I') -i <<<$';\cA \t' > > bash-5.

Re: How difficult would it be to add a timeout to "wait"?

On 4/21/23 11:34 AM, Dale R. Worley wrote: My interest here isn't "Can I accomplish this task with Bash?" but quite literally, Can I make this a *feature* of Bash so I don't have to set up the mechanics? (I already know of a couple of other ways to do it with Bash.) My point is that if it's e

Re: How difficult would it be to add a timeout to "wait"?

Chet Ramey writes: > On 4/20/23 1:53 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote: >> How difficult would it be to add an optional timeout argument to the >> "wait" builtin? > > Try a variant of this. > ... My interest here isn't "Can I accomplish this task with Bash?" but quite literally, Can I make this a *feature