Interested in contributing to Bash

2017-05-21 Thread Pranav Deshpande
Hello everyone, I am a beginner when it comes to open source and am interested in contributing to GNU Bash. Any guidance on so as how to get started? Are there any tasks that I can take up so that I get introduced to the code base. Regards, Pranav.

Re: {varname} redirection for a command or group leaves the file open

2017-05-21 Thread Eduardo Bustamante
FWIW, this seems to "fix" the issue. dualbus@debian:~/src/gnu/bash$ git diff -- redir.c diff --git a/redir.c b/redir.c index 68741dbb..8113ae3b 100644 --- a/redir.c +++ b/redir.c @@ -906,6 +906,7 @@ do_redirection_internal (redirect, flags) close (fd); return (r

Re: Interested in contributing to Bash

2017-05-21 Thread Eduardo Bustamante
On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 5:44 AM, Pranav Deshpande wrote: [...] > Any guidance on so as how to get started? Are there any tasks that I can > take up so that I get introduced to the code base. My recommendations would be: - Clone the git repository (https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=bash) - Subs

History Feature issue

2017-05-21 Thread Pranav Deshpande
The lssue here: https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?109000 interests me. It's something that I have experienced while using the shell. I am interested in solving it Any ideas so as how can I get started with the code base? Regards, Pranav

Re: History Feature issue

2017-05-21 Thread Eduardo Bustamante
On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Pranav Deshpande wrote: > The lssue here: https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?109000 interests me. > It's something that I have experienced while using the shell. I am > interested in solving it That bug report lacks detail. There are already ways of sharing histor