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Re: bash -c error


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According to Brian Dessent on 1/9/2006 10:29 AM:
> 
>>$ bash -c time
>>Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>>
> 
> This looks like a bash bug.  It looks like only 3.0 is affected, as it works
> fine in 3.1.  Since 'time' is a builtin, it appears to be a bug in trying to run
> time with an empty parameter:

Thanks for the backtrace.  I'll see about rolling a bash 3.0-15 in the
near future.  In the meantime, avoid invalid uses of time (POSIX states
that time takes a mandatory argument of the utility name to run; the bash
extension of letting time take no arguments was the culprit here).

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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