Re: behavioral change in coreutils `pwd` handling '//' (double slash) caused by gnulib update

2025-01-07 Thread Chet Ramey
lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

Re: shell scripts, spaces, and backslashes

2024-10-12 Thread Chet Ramey
y use even simple indexed arrays. But this doesn't have much to do wth the original message, does it? -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRUc...@case.eduht

Re: shell scripts, spaces, and backslashes

2024-10-11 Thread Chet Ramey
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Re: Avoid DoS vulnerability through unsafe default assignment

2022-08-01 Thread Chet Ramey
F='perl' POSIX is weird in some places... Single quotes aren't special within double quotes. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

Re: Parallelization of shell scripts for 'configure' etc.

2022-06-20 Thread Chet Ramey
x27;' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

Re: Parallelization of shell scripts for 'configure' etc.

2022-06-14 Thread Chet Ramey
immediately. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

Re: Regression in development version of bash w.r.t. associative hashes

2013-05-06 Thread Chet Ramey
his regression). You're just not bleeding-edge enough. :-) That problem was fixed several weeks ago as part of the ongoing cleanup of `invisible placeholder' variables (variables with attributes but no values, which are technically unset). Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long

Re: [bug-inetutils] inetutils-1.8: ftp build error

2010-07-25 Thread Chet Ramey
On 7/25/10 2:00 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 7/25/10 10:33 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: >>> This is a known bug, the reason if I recall is that readline >>> exports xmalloc and xrealloc is to allow programs to hook their >>> own version into readline.

Re: [bug-inetutils] inetutils-1.8: ftp build error

2010-07-25 Thread Chet Ramey
dline along with > xmalloc in my application before. Exactly. You can override readline's use of xmalloc easily -- almost without effort. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ra

Re: [bug-inetutils] inetutils-1.8: ftp build error

2010-07-25 Thread Chet Ramey
It supplies fallback implementations for those applications that don't provide the functions. Applications that do can easily override the readline definitions. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'

Re: [bug-inetutils] inetutils-1.8: ftp build error

2010-07-25 Thread Chet Ramey
design. Readline defines only xmalloc/xrealloc/xfree. That's an acceptably small footprint, though I could also see adding xcalloc. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

Re: [Bug-readline] Re: [bug-inetutils] inetutils-1.8: ftp build error

2010-06-08 Thread Chet Ramey
On 6/8/10 5:20 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi, > > Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: >> The problem is that readline 6.x exports `xmalloc' and `xrealloc', and >> it causes a linker error when used together with gnulib. > > According to what Chet Ramey said in >

Re: fpurge on z/OS

2009-04-19 Thread Chet Ramey
rning, and add a return 0 to make the function into a no-op, on the assumption that those versions of libc for which this is a problem (later versions of glibc) already provide fpurge. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

Re: fpurge on z/OS

2009-04-17 Thread Chet Ramey
ly portable. There aren't any good portable solutions for the issue. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

Re: SIGPIPE not properly reset with 'trap - PIPE'

2008-12-12 Thread Chet Ramey
he fix is to add more checks for receipt of terminating signals and to tell the shell to exit right away if executing an `output builtin' like echo or printf when a terminating signal is caught. It will be in bash-4.0. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.''