On 8/13/18 10:52 PM, Bize Ma wrote: > > This is a bug in bash and it should be fixed, not excused. > > To which I agree. After a year, nothing else have been said about it. > > It seems about time to get it solved. Or say that it won't be.
It's fixed in the current development versions, and that fix will be in the next release. It looks like it's been fixed since April, 2017 as part of a code cleanup to implement Posix interp 888: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-04/msg00001.html -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/