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From:	"Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:17:56 -0400
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Subject:	Re: Problems with latest Bash
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>  - First, Bash crashes during file-name completion.  To reproduce,
>    type "ls" and press TAB right after the `s', without any space
>    between the cursor and "ls".  The first traceback below is
>    generated in this case.

I couldn't reproduce this under Win 9X. I'll try again later under plain DOS.
> 
>  - DOS_TEST_HACK=y seems to cause "test -f" to fail and/or crash in
>    some cases.

I found the problem and it's so bad I can't believe I didn't run into it myself, 
especially since I've been configuring Binutils from CVS periodically. Oh well.

> Btw, may I suggest to name DOS_TEST_HACK differently?  (Perhaps the
> name is one reason why it crashes ;-).  How about DOS_TEST_FX, for
> example (pun intended)?

How about just DOS_TEST_F so people don't think 'test -x' is affected by this 
variable?


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Mark Elbrecht, snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com
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