Re: Bug report

2010-11-11 Thread Jan Schampera
sworddrag...@aol.com wrote: Description: It is possible to make input with the keyboard before bash is fully initialized. This problem is critical on password inputs like the linux login. Repeat-By: $input is now shown before and after sworddra...@ubuntu:~$. Example: testsworddra...@u

Bug report

2010-11-11 Thread sworddragon2
From: sworddragon To: bug-bash@gnu.org,b...@packages.debian.org Subject: Input before initializing Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTY

Re: static vs. dynamic scoping

2010-11-11 Thread Marc Herbert
>> Examples? >> >> http://fvue.nl/wiki/Bash:_Passing_variables_by_reference , I like that. > Very interesting. This reminds me of reflection in Java. Something difficult and dangerous to use, so you never use it directly. Instead you ask a framework or a library ( ~= "upvar" ) to use reflection f