Bug#1069978: bash: incorrect value of $BASH for login shells

2024-04-29 Thread Chet Ramey
On 4/28/24 6:18 PM, Gioele Barabucci wrote: On 28/04/24 22:50, Chet Ramey wrote: On 4/28/24 3:07 PM, Gioele Barabucci wrote: $ su -l $USER -s /bin/bash-static -c 'echo $BASH; readlink /proc/$$/exe; head -1z /proc/$$/cmdline; echo' /bin/bash /usr/bin/bash-static

Bug#1069978: bash: incorrect value of $BASH for login shells

2024-04-28 Thread Chet Ramey
s not a link to bash) What does `su' pass to bash in argv[0]? -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ OpenP

Bug#1069978: bash: incorrect value of $BASH for login shells

2024-04-28 Thread Chet Ramey
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Bug#935905: bash: ":?xxx" filename broken on autocomplete

2024-04-28 Thread Chet Ramey
he word being completed is "". -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#935905: bash: ":?xxx" filename broken on autocomplete

2024-04-28 Thread Chet Ramey
', quote it with a backslash. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#973620: bash: overflow on integer variables greater than 9223372036854775807

2024-04-15 Thread Chet Ramey
et -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#306043: bash executable completion doesn't work if there is a space in the executable path

2024-04-08 Thread Chet Ramey
ple commands with spaces match a given prefix: Thanks for the report. This will be fixed in the next push to the bash devel branch. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CW

Bug#972672: bash SIGSEGV related to locale

2020-11-04 Thread Chet Ramey
he prototype, LEN is the maximum number of bytes to store in DST. In bash, since LEN is set from the number of bytes in the original pathname, and the possibly-modified multibyte character pathname cannot contain more than that number of bytes, LEN is appropriate. -- ``The lyf so short, the c

Bug#972286: coreutils: Crash when using globs on a path with non-latin characters

2020-10-30 Thread Chet Ramey
nter to a fix. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

Bug#935115: bash: [regression] passing variable assignments to functions broken in POSIX mode, violating POSIX

2019-08-19 Thread Chet Ramey
posix issue because posix doesn't have anything to say about local variables. So thanks for the report, and I'll look at the local variable issue. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

Bug#806945: Installation of PDF/PS/DVI and HTML files

2015-12-06 Thread Chet Ramey
sh > shouldn’t be installing HTML/PDF/PS/DVI by default, at least per my > understanding of the GCS and its implementation in Automake, hence my > proposal. So installing the html files is a separate issue, unrelated to the issues raised by the `reproducible builds' folks. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

Bug#806945: Installation of PDF/PS/DVI and HTML files

2015-12-05 Thread Chet Ramey
xist. bash-4.4, unlike bash-4.3, will ship with the generated documentation (look at the bash-4.4-beta distribution, for example). Given that, under what circumstances would the generated documentation need to be rebuilt by this `reproducible builds' effort? -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

Bug#806945: Fwd: Re: Installation of PDF/PS/DVI and HTML files

2015-12-05 Thread Chet Ramey
The standards say to make sure to install the info file when you run `make install', using the `install-info' program to do so. > What do you think? It's hard to say, since the proposed patch has little to do with the subject of the message. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so l

Bug#403304: Debian: bash --debugger doesn't start the debugger

2015-10-13 Thread Chet Ramey
early May, and will be in bash-4.4. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

Bug#771244: bash 4.3: "Clear Scrollback and Reset" (Ctrl-Shift-X) in konsole stopped to work as expected when upgrading from upstream bash 4.2 to upstream bash 4.3

2014-12-03 Thread Chet Ramey
You might want to check out the latest devel branch snapshot, though. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

Bug#771244: bash 4.3: "Clear Scrollback and Reset" (Ctrl-Shift-X) in konsole stopped to work as expected when upgrading from upstream bash 4.2 to upstream bash 4.3

2014-11-30 Thread Chet Ramey
l see about other platforms. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#771244: bash 4.3: "Clear Scrollback and Reset" (Ctrl-Shift-X) in konsole stopped to work as expected when upgrading from upstream bash 4.2 to upstream bash 4.3

2014-11-28 Thread Chet Ramey
e > for development? I use something local and home-grown that far predates git. The development history is a combination of the change log (CWRU/CWRU.chlog) and the git devel checkins. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vi

Bug#771244: bash 4.3: "Clear Scrollback and Reset" (Ctrl-Shift-X) in konsole stopped to work as expected when upgrading from upstream bash 4.2 to upstream bash 4.3

2014-11-28 Thread Chet Ramey
commit. Where can I download more detailed history? Try looking at the devel branch. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.e

Bug#740971: completion fails on file names with special characters

2014-03-27 Thread Chet Ramey
On 3/27/14, 7:11 PM, Uwe Storbeck wrote: > On Mar 27, Chet Ramey wrote: >> Since that line, as you entered it above, is a syntax error, it's not >> clear what bash should do with it (probably nothing). What do you >> expect to happen? > > The same as if you would

Bug#740971: completion fails on file names with special characters

2014-03-27 Thread Chet Ramey
short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#740971: completion fails on file names with special characters

2014-03-20 Thread Chet Ramey
1572,1580 oldcs = pcomp_curcs; oldcmd = pcomp_curcmd; + oldtxt = pcomp_curtxt; pcomp_curcs = cs; pcomp_curcmd = cmd; + pcomp_curtxt = word; ret = gen_compspec_completions (cs, cmd, word, start, end, foundp); *** *** 1554,1557 --- 1582,1586 ----

Bug#742006: [bash] Incomplete grammar in manual page (compound commands)

2014-03-19 Thread Chet Ramey
p;'. Thanks. The man page says "a sequence of one or more commands ...". I'll fix the inconsistency. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...

Bug#742006: [bash] Incomplete grammar in manual page (compound commands)

2014-03-18 Thread Chet Ramey
ommands, go to http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_09_04 What's the point of this report? Is there some problem this is attempting to address? -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa,

Bug#740971: completion fails on file names with special characters

2014-03-13 Thread Chet Ramey
ent (Mac OS X, RHEL) do not install bash-completion. For instance, I believe that the problem with these unquoted special characters is that they break words for readline, and readline passes an empty argument to the completion function as the word to be completed. I'm not sure what ba

Bug#741402: [bash] Shell functions definitions may require parentheses despite function keyword

2014-03-12 Thread Chet Ramey
hort, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#710588: display of search string very wrongly stops when can't find any match

2013-06-04 Thread Chet Ramey
Thanks for the suggestion. I will look at implementing this for the next version of bash. It will likely not be in bash-4.3, which is already in alpha, but may appear in subsequent development snapshots for testing. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer

Bug#628638: [PATCH/RFC] bash.1: "shopt -s checkwinsize" has no effect in non-interactive shells

2011-06-04 Thread Chet Ramey
a manual page. It's more appropriate for an FAQ or a bash guide. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -

Bug#611417: set -m +m -x and the element of chance or is it race conditions?

2011-01-29 Thread Chet Ramey
On 1/29/11 7:33 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: >>>>>> "CR" == Chet Ramey writes: > CR> Is it a problem? Bash prints messages about signal-terminated processes > -- > CR> at least those that don't die due to SIGINT or SIGPIPE -- when the > CR&g

Bug#426990: 'test' builtin of bash returns wrong value for '! -a FILE' operation

2010-11-08 Thread Chet Ramey
argument case. The sentences are supposed to indicate precedence. It would actually be clearer if they were separated into bullet points, as they are in the Posix standard. I'll look at doing that. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer

Bug#569227: ncurses-base: break handling of ctrl-c in xterm and rxvt using bash

2010-04-12 Thread Chet Ramey
g the problem? Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#573780: "trap - SIGNAL" should reset SIGNAL to SIG_DFL not to initial value

2010-03-26 Thread Chet Ramey
. An interactive shell may reset or catch signals ignored on entry. This covers what you're trying to do. (Bash treats non-interactive and interactive shells identically in this regard.) Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#444250: Bug#574396: please set enable-meta-key (_rl_enable_meta) sanely

2010-03-25 Thread Chet Ramey
$TERM, it's something that the user is going to have > to decide. It might be dynamic. OK, thanks for your help. We've come full circle. I don't see any reason to change the status quo. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer

Bug#444250: Bug#574396: please set enable-meta-key (_rl_enable_meta) sanely

2010-03-23 Thread Chet Ramey
On 3/23/10 8:18 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Chet Ramey wrote: > >> On 3/23/10 6:24 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: >>> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Chet Ramey wrote: >>> >>>>> I see (it would have been nice if Chet Ramey had responded to the bug

Bug#574396: please set enable-meta-key (_rl_enable_meta) sanely

2010-03-23 Thread Chet Ramey
rt, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Bug#444250: Bug#574396: please set enable-meta-key (_rl_enable_meta) sanely

2010-03-23 Thread Chet Ramey
On 3/23/10 6:24 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Chet Ramey wrote: > >>> I see (it would have been nice if Chet Ramey had responded to the bug >>> report in October - I updated my faq to address this detail). >> >> I did. I sent the following q

Bug#444250: Bug#574396: please set enable-meta-key (_rl_enable_meta) sanely

2010-03-23 Thread Chet Ramey
> I see (it would have been nice if Chet Ramey had responded to the bug > report in October - I updated my faq to address this detail). I did. I sent the following questions (I have more, but this is a start). They were ignored, so I went on without the information. = <09100618425

Bug#574396: please set enable-meta-key (_rl_enable_meta) sanely

2010-03-23 Thread Chet Ramey
were ignored. I'm still waiting. Remember that the only way bash or any application can get to the xterm resources is through terminfo/termcap. If understanding the interaction between the two requires some remedial instruction, fire away. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so lon

Bug#519165: [Fwd: Bug#519165: bash 4 regression]

2009-07-03 Thread Chet Ramey
lot of existing > scripts. Can't win, can you? :-) When bash does something different from historical shell behavior, it either gets slammed because the difference exists or because people write scripts that depend on the difference. :-) Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

Bug#265182: I can confirm the bash prompt bug

2008-08-23 Thread Chet Ramey
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Bug#487387: [[ ... =~ ... ]] is broken when RHS is quoted

2008-06-23 Thread Chet Ramey
ich you may enable to restore the bash-3.1 behavior. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#476519: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#476519: shell-mode garbles input

2008-05-03 Thread Chet Ramey
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Bug#476519: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#476519: shell-mode garbles input

2008-05-02 Thread Chet Ramey
Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#442077: su + ssh + false kills $PPID?

2007-09-12 Thread Chet Ramey
ts parent's: the contents of the here document. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Bug#429021: builtin echo command redirection misbehaves in detached scripts when terminal is closed

2007-09-10 Thread Chet Ramey
Andreas Schwab wrote: > Chet Ramey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> What's needed is a portable interface like BSD's fpurge(3). > > This is also available from glibc as __fpurge (likewise on Solaris). Yes, though I have an aversion to calling functions with a

Bug#429021: builtin echo command redirection misbehaves in detached scripts when terminal is closed

2007-09-10 Thread Chet Ramey
the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#334182: dash POSIX issues [Gentoo Bug #171630]

2007-05-20 Thread Chet Ramey
D wasn't released until 1993, and Net2 didn't make enough of a ripple to affect the standard. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns

Bug#334182: dash POSIX issues [Gentoo Bug #171630]

2007-05-20 Thread Chet Ramey
e handy, so that should give you an idea of how many times it's come up in the last five years or so. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cn

Bug#360793: bash -c '. /dev/enoent; whoami' unhelpful error code (forwarded from Ian Jackson)

2006-04-27 Thread Chet Ramey
Ian Jackson wrote: > Chet Ramey writes ("Re: Bug#360793: bash -c '. /dev/enoent; whoami' unhelpful > error code (forwarded from Ian Jackson)"): >> Matthias Klose wrote: >>> The exit status should be 127, not 1. That would allow >>>

Bug#360793: bash -c '. /dev/enoent; whoami' unhelpful error code (forwarded from Ian Jackson)

2006-04-23 Thread Chet Ramey
nt to check whether or not a file exists before trying to source it, use test -e or test -f. If you want the shell to abort if the file argument can't be read, use posix mode. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Live Strong. No d

Bug#362010: bash: output without trailing newline makes prompt behave oddly (forwarded from Yunfeng Wang)

2006-04-23 Thread Chet Ramey
Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Bug#358831: bash operand errors (forwarded from C.Y.M)

2006-03-31 Thread Chet Ramey
patch for this. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~ch

Bug#357260: bash-doc: GFDL documentation with cover texts (forwarded from Sven Joachim)

2006-03-21 Thread Chet Ramey
- Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#345861: [parameter expansion] Array member length expansion fails with nested index expression (forwarded from Jan C. Nordholz)

2006-03-03 Thread Chet Ramey
e craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Bug#345473: set bell-style none in /etc/inputrc has no effect (forwarded from [EMAIL PROTECTED])

2006-02-07 Thread Chet Ramey
he `prefer-visible-bell' variable, since that can override bell-style. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL P

Bug#342868: A fix for the actual bash defect (forwarded from Mike Stroyan)

2006-02-02 Thread Chet Ramey
f so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Bug#343471: bash: In the command line, problem when the line reaches the last column of the terminal

2005-12-16 Thread Chet Ramey
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2005-12-16 13:47:21 -0500, Chet Ramey wrote: >> Vincent Lefevre wrote: >>> When I start bash with "bash --rcfile /etc/bash.bashrc", the problem >>> occurs. But if I type "bash --norc" then "source /etc/bash.bashrc&q

Bug#343471: bash: In the command line, problem when the line reaches the last column of the terminal

2005-12-16 Thread Chet Ramey
r `xn' is wrong. What's in debian's /etc/bash.bashrc, and has it been changed on your system? (I can't reproduce this at all, so someone else who can will have to feed information into this process.) Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Ch

Bug#343128: libreadline5: Ignoring terminal control characters for prompt length also broken in irb (forwarded from Aaron Schrab)

2005-12-15 Thread Chet Ramey
re values? Does irb handle that specially somehow? (Bash does it because it has to quote those characters internally, but those are not part of what readline understands.) Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- che

Bug#343128: libreadline5: Ignoring terminal control characters for prompt length also broken in irb (forwarded from Aaron Schrab)

2005-12-15 Thread Chet Ramey
ot; and "\001\002" in my IRb > prompt. This works fine with libreadline5 5.0-11, but with the current > version, I get the same behaviour as I saw in psql. What does this mean? -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'&

Bug#343477: gdb: segfault when delete pressed (forwarded from Daniel Jacobowitz)

2005-12-15 Thread Chet Ramey
pt it was in unidiff format. Something very close to that will be readline-5.1 patch 1. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. Chet Ramey

Bug#332635: libreadline5: readline works incorrectly with non-ASCII input (forwarded from [EMAIL PROTECTED])

2005-11-11 Thread Chet Ramey
o long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#331381: [PATCH] segmentation fault due to gcc optimization and longjmp (forwarded from Jim Paris)

2005-10-04 Thread Chet Ramey
(by slightly rearranging code). Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -

Bug#310012: dynamic-complete-history documentation change

2005-09-14 Thread Chet Ramey
lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Bug#265182: this is an actual bash bug, here is how to reproduce (forwarded from Wesley J. Landaker)

2005-09-10 Thread Chet Ramey
( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#282799: bash: Completion of fd redirect after find command limited to directories (forwarded from Lionel Elie Mamane) (forwarded from Ian Macdonald)

2005-09-10 Thread Chet Ramey
level itself. And what do you suggest that generic solution should be? Don't call the programmable completion code at all if the previous token appears to be a redirection? Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- c

Bug#294078: bash: wait neglects short-lived children (POSIX violation) (forwarded from Aaron M. Ucko)

2005-09-10 Thread Chet Ramey
het -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Bug#327274: bash: Empty strings are wrongly translated (forwarded from Jim Paris)

2005-09-10 Thread Chet Ramey
3.1 source where that occurs. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#323300: bash: \kill not invoke /bin/kill

2005-09-10 Thread Chet Ramey
you'll need to use its full pathname. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu

Bug#305485: bash: exec -a "name" does not rename $0 (forwarded from [EMAIL PROTECTED])

2005-09-10 Thread Chet Ramey
;' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#303113: bash: CDPATH in POSIX mode breaks cd builtin if symlinks exist (forwarded from T. Perkins)

2005-09-10 Thread Chet Ramey
et -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Bug#299928: bash: negative exit status are buggy

2005-09-10 Thread Chet Ramey
. The exit status is anded with 0377, see exit(3). There's no bug here. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#298889: unset var with 2.05b.0(12)-release (forwarded from digamma)

2005-09-10 Thread Chet Ramey
st Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#296099: bash: 'help if': confusing text (forwarded from A Costa)

2005-09-10 Thread Chet Ramey
- Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#292751: "command -v" prints function names (forwarded from Thomas Hood)

2005-09-10 Thread Chet Ramey
shell functions are explicitly included. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#283702: Race condition when writing ~/.bash_history (forwarded from Cyril Bouthors)

2005-09-09 Thread Chet Ramey
Matthias Klose wrote: > [severity was lowerd in the Debian BTS] I'm not inclined to do anything about this. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live S

Bug#310598: bash:[completion] renders "set" unusable (forwarded from Eddy Petrisor) (forwarded from Ian Macdonald)

2005-09-09 Thread Chet Ramey
> It would be nice if there were an option to set to display the > environment minus any defined shell functions. Perhaps this could be > suggested to the bash maintainer, Chet Ramey. When bash is in posix mode, `set' displays variables only, without shell functions. You can

Bug#320036: bash exits 0 on errors reading stdin (and perhaps other scripts) (forwarded from Ian Jackson)

2005-07-27 Thread Chet Ramey
the shell exits. The exit value is $?, which is changed by the last command (pipeline) executed or by a signal. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live...Laugh...L

Bug#291840: bash: segfault on variable assignment (forwarded from Joe Pfeiffer)

2005-01-23 Thread Chet Ramey
Matthias Klose wrote: Chet Ramey writes: Matthias Klose wrote: The command IFS="$(echo -e "\255")" (which is found in the burncdda shell script) causes a seg fault. The same command does not have a problem in version 2.05b-24 I can't reproduce this with bash-3.0 (all rel

Bug#291840: bash: segfault on variable assignment (forwarded from Joe Pfeiffer)

2005-01-23 Thread Chet Ramey
reproduce this with bash-3.0 (all released patches) on MacOS X, FreeBSD, or Red Hat 8. A stack traceback would be helpful. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live...Laugh...Love Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU

Bug#291293: bash: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading (forwarded from Philipp Meier)

2005-01-22 Thread Chet Ramey
ist unless libc doesn't provide one, and I don't have any translations for its messages. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live...Laugh...Love Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Bug#291197: "command -v" prints pathnames of non-executable files (forwarded from Thomas Hood)

2005-01-22 Thread Chet Ramey
Matthias Klose wrote: Bug#291197: "command -v" prints pathnames of non-executable files Package: bash Version: 3.0-5 Severity: normal Please consider the following sequence of commands which illustrates that "command -v foo" prints the name of the first executable file "foo" it finds on the PATH, f