Embarassing bash
About three month ago I've discovered an interesting way to render bash shell unusable. Consider the following very simple bash script:
Put this script in the file, say,
... Now hit
At this point, the shell starts to behave very strangely. Lets just say that
I've send the message to bash-bug mailing list, reporting the problem to X, but there was no a single reply.
Update 23.11.2005:
bash guys have finally replied, saying that the bug has been confirmed and will be fixed in release 3.1.
for i in 1 2 3; do
return
done
Put this script in the file, say,
sourceme
. Next, if you do the following:#> source source
#> sleep 10
... Now hit
CTRL-Z
to suspend the sleep ...At this point, the shell starts to behave very strangely. Lets just say that
ls /tmp
(or anything else) does not show anything.I've send the message to bash-bug mailing list, reporting the problem to X, but there was no a single reply.
Update 23.11.2005:
bash guys have finally replied, saying that the bug has been confirmed and will be fixed in release 3.1.
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