X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43C3C316.40004@byu.net> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:22:14 -0700 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Krzysztof Duleba CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bash -c error References: <43C29D64.6EA16960@dessent.net> <43C3C018.8080709@byu.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Krzysztof Duleba on 1/10/2006 7:14 AM: > > This was just a minimal test case. > > $ bash -c time ls > Segmentation fault (core dumped) That is equivalent to 'bash -c time', except that $0 is set to "ls" instead of "bash" or "time" for the duration of the command (in other words, the same crash as before, because you invoked time without arguments). > > However, > > $ bash -c 'time ls' Much better - now you are actually giving time an argument. Again, in bash 3.0, you should not use time without a valid argument (at least, not until I can roll a bash 3.0-15 that works around the coredump). Or you could upgrade to bash 3.1 (but remember to also use a current snapshot and readline 5.1), where the problem has been fixed upstream. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net volunteer cygwin bash maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDw8MV84KuGfSFAYARAsT0AJ4/2ki/bWHT+4Xz/yrnR+EgCblscACePHCv +HJDq7jpwWMIij08jc8P0uc= =8vRL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/