Re: cd completion using aliased cd command

2013-07-16 Thread Linda Walsh
Oh... you are quoting spaces...cygwin...Win...sorry, took a bit... in the midst of my own MS-induced distraction...(last updates made sys non-bootable and broke sys-restore). No recent backups, so reinstall new, and trying to restore old settings from old registry... oh what fun -- I am posting

cd completion using aliased cd command

2013-07-16 Thread Mark W. Johnson
From: mwjohnso To: bug-bash@gnu.org Subject: cd completion using aliased cd command Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i686 OS: cygwin Compiler: gcc-4 Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash.exe' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' -DCONF_OSTYPE='cygwin' -DCONF_MACHTYPE=

Re: devel source tree? (doc page outdated or something broken?)

2013-07-16 Thread Linda Walsh
Greg wrote: http://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=bash Chet Ramey wrote: The devel branch is part of the git tree, not cvs. Thanks, ... um, doesn't that mean the doc page is a bit misleading for the code portion of the source?? (no need to answer, just something to think about in your 'spar

Re: bash kill(1) doesn't report errors when $(ulimit -i) is exceeded

2013-07-16 Thread Cedric Blancher
On 16 July 2013 23:12, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Lionel Cons wrote: >> >> Either your ulimit -i is greater than 63000 or we have a Linux bug. If >> ulimit -i is reached then kill(1) should fail. > > Traditionally kill() has never returned errors for things like this

Re: bash kill(1) doesn't report errors when $(ulimit -i) is exceeded

2013-07-16 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Lionel Cons wrote: > > Either your ulimit -i is greater than 63000 or we have a Linux bug. If > ulimit -i is reached then kill(1) should fail. Traditionally kill() has never returned errors for things like this. In fact, quite arguably POSIX actively disallows kil

Re: bash kill(1) doesn't report errors when $(ulimit -i) is exceeded

2013-07-16 Thread Chet Ramey
On 7/16/13 4:31 PM, Lionel Cons wrote: > On 15 July 2013 15:35, Chet Ramey wrote: >> On 7/14/13 2:38 PM, Cedric Blancher wrote: >>> The tests below is from the ongoing work of David Korn and Roland >>> Mainz to make signals in ksh93 reliable and predictable (so far no >>> shell tested really does

Re: bash kill(1) doesn't report errors when $(ulimit -i) is exceeded

2013-07-16 Thread Lionel Cons
On 15 July 2013 15:35, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 7/14/13 2:38 PM, Cedric Blancher wrote: >> The tests below is from the ongoing work of David Korn and Roland >> Mainz to make signals in ksh93 reliable and predictable (so far no >> shell tested really does it). I derived one of their tests and found >