Re: bash 4.3.48(1) and repo: processing of commands halts at first semicolon

2018-07-03 Thread toww
Chet: Thank you for the pointers. I tried to read through the "repo" code all morning. I don't really know Python, but what I can see is that: 1) It appears to not invoke any specific shell. It seems to fork a new process, which would duplicate whatever shell it started with. 2) It has a "D

Re: bash 4.3.48(1) and repo: processing of commands halts at first semicolon

2018-07-03 Thread Chet Ramey
On 7/3/18 10:34 AM, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 7/2/18 5:58 PM, toww wrote: > >> Bash Version: 4.3 >> Patch Level: 48 >> Release Status: release >> >> Description: >> There seems to be a new incompatibility or incorrect string parsing in how >> the Google "repo" utility interacts with the bash shell. P

Re: bash 4.3.48(1) and repo: processing of commands halts at first semicolon

2018-07-03 Thread Chet Ramey
On 7/2/18 5:58 PM, toww wrote: > Bash Version: 4.3 > Patch Level: 48 > Release Status: release > > Description: > There seems to be a new incompatibility or incorrect string parsing in how > the Google "repo" utility interacts with the bash shell. Previously I could > invoke the "repo" command, p

bash 4.3.48(1) and repo: processing of commands halts at first semicolon

2018-07-03 Thread toww
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='l$ uname output: Linux 20180329x99-a 4.13.0-38-generic #43~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed $ Machine Type: x86_64-

Re: bash 4.3.48(1) and repo: processing of commands halts at first semicolon

2018-07-02 Thread Chet Ramey
On 7/2/18 6:25 PM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 04:58:06PM -0700, toww wrote: > [...] >> Description: >> There seems to be a new incompatibility or incorrect string parsing in how >> the Google "repo" utility interacts with the bash shell. Previously I could >> invok

Re: bash 4.3.48(1) and repo: processing of commands halts at first semicolon

2018-07-02 Thread Eduardo A . Bustamante López
On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 04:58:06PM -0700, toww wrote: [...] > Description: > There seems to be a new incompatibility or incorrect string parsing in how > the Google "repo" utility interacts with the bash shell. Previously I could > invoke the "repo" command, passing to it a string to execute multip