On 10/20/16 3:57 PM, Dan Douglas wrote:
>> No, it's trivial. It's an assignment failure. The fix is to remove
>> the readonly attribute.
>
> Makes sense to me. I noticed the problem on the same day this was
> reported while trying to compare two environments while eliminating all
> the non-cons
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 10/20/16 11:32 AM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
>
>> So, in some contexts this bug causes a premature exit of the shell, in
>> others it causes a premature exit of a loop. This bug hunt could get
>> interesting.
>
> No, it's trivial. It's an assign
On 10/20/16 11:32 AM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> So, in some contexts this bug causes a premature exit of the shell, in
> others it causes a premature exit of a loop. This bug hunt could get
> interesting.
No, it's trivial. It's an assignment failure. The fix is to remove
the readonly attribute.
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 1:31 AM, lolilolicon wrote:
> bash simply aborts this command.
I think I mean "list".
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:32 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> #! /usr/local/bin/bash
> insubshell() {
> return "$((BASHPID=$$))"
> # ^ fatal typo
> }
> for ((i=0; i<1; i++)); do insubshell; done
> echo $i
> insubshell || echo ok
> echo continuing
>
> The output of t
Op 20-10-16 om 14:22 schreef Greg Wooledge:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:53:37PM +0200, Martijn Dekker wrote:
>> Assigning to BASHPID most certainly does have an effect. Since you
>> didn't quote that part, I think you might have missed my point that
>> attempting this will silently exit the shell
On 10/19/16 5:53 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> Op 19-10-16 om 15:18 schreef Chet Ramey:
>> On 10/17/16 2:38 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
>>> bash 4.4.0 (I did not investigate other versions) does not produce an
>>> error message if you try to assign something to the BASHPID readonly
>>> using either ari
On 10/19/16 8:16 PM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
> I wonder the same thing. I don't understand the reasoning for picking (2).
It's useful functionality with a particular meaning. If you want to use
that variable for something else, you can.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to l
Picking 2 allows old scripts that work to keep working. Changing to 1
would change the functionality of formerly working scripts in very
undesirable ways. ;-)
> 1. BASHPID is readonly, therefore assignment to it is fatal and the script
> exits
> (with an error message printed). That's what my pre
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:53:37PM +0200, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> Assigning to BASHPID most certainly does have an effect. Since you
> didn't quote that part, I think you might have missed my point that
> attempting this will silently exit the shell without any error message,
> causing the problem
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:53:37PM +0200, Martijn Dekker wrote:
[...]
> Assigning to BASHPID most certainly does have an effect. Since you
> didn't quote that part, I think you might have missed my point that
> attempting this will silently exit the shell without any error message,
> causing the pr
Op 19-10-16 om 15:18 schreef Chet Ramey:
> On 10/17/16 2:38 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
>> bash 4.4.0 (I did not investigate other versions) does not produce an
>> error message if you try to assign something to the BASHPID readonly
>> using either arithmetic or normal assignment. Other readonlies pr
On 10/17/16 2:38 PM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> bash 4.4.0 (I did not investigate other versions) does not produce an
> error message if you try to assign something to the BASHPID readonly
> using either arithmetic or normal assignment. Other readonlies produce a
> message on an assignment attempt. BA
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 08:38:29PM +0200, Martijn Dekker wrote:
[...]
The BASHPID variable is initialized with null_assign as its "assign_func". The
default value for this attribute in newly created variables is NULL.
The problem here is caused by the following code from variables.c (function is
bash 4.4.0 (I did not investigate other versions) does not produce an
error message if you try to assign something to the BASHPID readonly
using either arithmetic or normal assignment. Other readonlies produce a
message on an assignment attempt. BASHPID seems to be an exception.
Particularly anno
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