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From: chet@cwns5.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
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Subject: Re: A set of bash bugs and suggestions (long)
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Date: 14 Jun 89 22:07:03 GMT
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In article <8906141744.AA00311@life.ai.mit.edu> jjd@BBN.COM (James J Dempsey) writes:

[ Talks about his prompt_command problem ]
>It seems that no one can reproduce this, although I haven't seen a
>message from anyone running Ultrix 3.0.  Here is some more data to aid
>in debugging.

I am running bash 0.99 on a VAXstation 2000 with Ultrix 3.0.

>bash$ PROMPT_COMMAND=date
>Wed Jun 14 13:26:15 EDT 1989
>bash$ if date
>Wed Jun 14 13:26:54 EDT 1989
>bash>then
>Wed Jun 14 13:26:55 EDT 1989
>bash>echo fine
>Wed Jun 14 13:26:56 EDT 1989
>bash>fi
>Illegal instruction (core dumped)

Here is my output with the same input:

pirate$ echo $SHLVL
3
pirate$ PROMPT_COMMAND=date
Wed Jun 14 18:01:36 EDT 1989
pirate$ if date
Wed Jun 14 18:01:41 EDT 1989
> then
Wed Jun 14 18:01:44 EDT 1989
> echo fine
Wed Jun 14 18:01:46 EDT 1989
> fi
Wed Jun 14 18:01:49 EDT 1989
fine
Wed Jun 14 18:01:49 EDT 1989
pirate$


Also, setting line buffering for stderr as advised by another posting makes
bash dump core in xrealloc on my machine (VS2000, Ultrix).


Chet Ramey     Network Services Group, CWRU    chet@{cwjcc,pirate}.INS.CWRU.Edu

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