Re: Bash reference manual feedback

2022-09-19 Thread Chet Ramey
On 9/11/22 11:30 AM, David Apps wrote: I hope that you are well. Thank you for your work on this great software. I have some feedback about the document at: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html the Bash shell (version 5.1, 21 December 2020). Thanks for your careful reading of th

Re: bash-5.1.16 fails to unlink named pipes if pipeline terminates prematurely

2022-09-19 Thread Chet Ramey
On 9/12/22 5:52 PM, RVP wrote: On Fri, 9 Sep 2022, Chet Ramey wrote: Bash is out of the picture by the time the diff command dies due to SIGPIPE. It performs word expansions, including process substitution, and execs diff. It's no longer around to remove the named pipes. Without the `| head'

Re: self-reference to assoc.-array variable

2022-09-19 Thread Martin D Kealey
Regression appears to have occurred between bash-5.0.18 and bash-5.1-alpha at commit 712f80b0. (I note that this commit is missing from the master branch, which only includes bash-5.0.17 at commit.) I tried to find the change in the devel branch, but ugh, git diff between devel & master is unhelpf