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 -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
*** ../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 ();