On 12/18/24 4:38 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
I understand that Bash will die if you send a SIGUSR1, and it
has no trap set up for it; but when it does have a handler set up,
it seems that Readline may be blocking the signal (perhaps via the sigprocmask
or whatever). I probably won't be digging into i
On 12/18/24 4:56 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
(That would be an issue if we had used eval:
eval 'command ... $$ ...' &
now we backgrounded the eval, which then in the background
process parses the shell syntax and does all the expanding.
Now $$ is the PID of the background process, not that of
the
On 12/18/24 9:39 PM, Zachary Santer wrote:
If one wants to use funsubs that don't expand to anything as a
workaround like this, it might be more efficient to use the ${|
command; } form, as bash then isn't pointlessly redirecting stdout.
The manual describes 'set -u'/'set -o nounset' thusly:
Tr
On 12/14/24 9:35 AM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
(see first part for background)
I've patched Bash to merge “shopt” and “set -o”, and now “make tests”
reports some minor differences. I would like some feedback on whether
they're significant enough to warrant fixing.
I never did hear why exactly you
