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Re: Bash quits unexpectedly in cygwin 1.1.5-7


On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, David Starks-Browning wrote:

>
> On Monday 20 Nov 00, Robert Bogomip writes:
> > Doing "ls $(echo file)" causes bash to quit. Here is a quick session log:
> >
> >   PANG (~) $ ls
> >   1      buff-in.rc5  macros.rec
> >   PANG (~) $ # You can do this next line as often as you like
> >   PANG (~) $ echo $(echo 1)
> >   1
> >   PANG (~) $ #..But this will kill bash on the first or second go
> >   PANG (~) $ ls $(echo 1)
> >
> > This occurs for both bash 2.04-3 and 2.04-4 under cygwin 1.1.5-7. It
> > works OK (bash doesn't quit) under cygwin 1.1.4. Hmmmm.
>
> On Monday 20 Nov 00, Corinna Vinschen writes:
> >
> > This works in the latest developer snapshot. I can't reproduce it.
>
> I cannot even reproduce this with bash-2.04-4 and cygwin-1.1.5-7, so
> there must be something else going on.
>

I've just had another poke at this. So far I can only say that

  $ command1 `command2`

seems to be a problem where command1 is external and command2 is a
builtin. For example,

  $ ls `echo 1`

or

  $ diff `dirs`

breaks.

  $ ls `cat 1`

is fine.

This is definately OK on cygwin 1.1.4. It's 1.1.5-7 that seems to be the
problem (that's on Win2000 SP1). I've played with the path, PS1 setting,
aliases etc. etc. and nothing seems to affect it.
-- 
Robert Bogomip /// mailto:bob.bogo@milohedge.com
Milo Hedge Ltd, OCFI, Mill Street, Oxford, OX2 0JX /// tel:+44 1865 799400


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