Re: Input line length

2010-06-06 Thread Jan Schampera
Oh, and to be complete: uname -rms yields: * Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 x86_64 The C library is a: * GNU libc 2.16.6-3 The crashed Bash is a: * ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, not stripped Jan "TheBonsai"

Re: Input line length

2010-06-06 Thread Jan Schampera
Chet Ramey wrote: How about a stack traceback? I'm so sorry, I thought this was clear and easy to reproduce/verify. I'm using this to generate the script. The number of commands varies between shell versions (and likely other platform stuff), so you might need to play around with the values

Re: Input line length

2010-06-06 Thread Chet Ramey
On 6/5/10 10:52 AM, Jan Schampera wrote: > Hello list, > > somebody in chat just asked about the maximum input line length, I know > (and told him) that this might be very platform dependent, but I did > some tests. > > The result of these tests was a SEGV (after some 78K line length). > Shouldn'

Re: Wrong alignment in select lists

2010-06-06 Thread Chet Ramey
On 5/31/10 5:42 PM, Bernd Eggink wrote: > Select lists are sometimes displayed with incorrect vertical alignment > if an item contains one or more German umlauts. Examples: > > select x in äöü blah{1..20}; do :; done# wrong > select x in amöbe blah{1..20}; do :; done# wrong >