On 8/16/16 12:16 PM, L. A. Walsh wrote:
The relevant change was probably the change in the set of commands to
which `set -e' applies. The change was the result of Posix changing
the semantics of the errexit option and expanding its scope from simple
commands to all commands.
>
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:16:50AM -0700, L. A. Walsh wrote:
> Perhaps you can explain why bash's "normal mode" had to change?
I don't have a "why", but I do note this on
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105/Answers
See the answer for "Exercise 2".
I repeat, because it needs to be repeated ev
Chet Ramey wrote:
On 8/15/16 6:15 AM, L. A. Walsh wrote:
Chet Ramey wrote:
The relevant change was probably the change in the set of commands to which
`set -e' applies. The change was the result of Posix changing the semantics of
the errexit option and expanding its scope from simp
On 8/13/16 10:01 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In Bash 4.3.42:
>
> In execute_cmd/shell_execve(), if HAVE_BASH_BANG_EXEC is defined, the macro
> READ_SAMPLE_BUF has the potential to set sample_len to -1.
>
> #if defined (HAVE_HASH_BANG_EXEC)
> READ_SAMPLE_BUF (command, sampl
On 8/13/16 3:59 PM, Eduardo Bustamante wrote:
> Character ranges are locale-dependant. Check the values of LC_ALL and
> LC_COLLATE. Under some locales, the [A-Z] range is actually AaBb..Z. That's
> why it's better to use the character classes, i.e. [[:alpha:]],
> [[:lower:]], [[:upper:]], etc.
Thi
On 8/15/16 6:15 AM, L. A. Walsh wrote:
>
>
> Chet Ramey wrote:
>> The relevant change was probably the change in the set of commands to which
>> `set -e' applies. The (( command (among others) was added to that list
>> in bash-4.1. The change was the result of Posix changing the semantics
>> of
