On 8/11/11 10:44 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:

> It's hard to say without a better idea of the problem.  I suspected either
> eval or command substitution because they cause re-entry into the shell
> parser.  I don't suspect command substitution because that explicitly turns
> off interactive mode, but eval does not.  I'll see if I can run something
> simple to reproduce it.

It's eval.  Try the attached patch.

Chet

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*** ../bash-4.2-patched/parse.y	Fri Feb 25 12:07:41 2011
--- parse.y	Thu Aug 11 19:02:26 2011
***************
*** 2500,2504 ****
  	 is the mail alarm reset; nothing takes place in check_mail ()
  	 except the checking of mail.  Please don't change this. */
!       if (prompt_is_ps1 && time_to_check_mail ())
  	{
  	  check_mail ();
--- 2498,2502 ----
  	 is the mail alarm reset; nothing takes place in check_mail ()
  	 except the checking of mail.  Please don't change this. */
!       if (prompt_is_ps1 && parse_and_execute_level == 0 && time_to_check_mail ())
  	{
  	  check_mail ();

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