Re: DEBUG trap breaks pipelines

[Chet Ramey]

Anirban Sinha wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Chet Ramey wrote:
> 
>> Anirban Sinha wrote:
>>> Hmm, interesting. The patch that went in is slightly different:
>>>
>>> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.0-patches/bash40-019
>>>
>>> Anyway, I have applied this patch to our copy of older bash:
>>>
>>> GNU bash, version 3.1.0(5)-release (mips64-unknown-linux-gnu)
>>> Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>>
>>> and tested. The buggy pipe processing is now no longer present.
>> I'm glad it worked, but I have two questions:  why are you running a
>> bash version that's so old,
> 
> I haven't got around to updating our distribution. One of the reasons for this
> is that bash is notorious for breaking cross compiled builds. For example, it
> builds header files based on build machine architecture during compilation.
> So for example, wrong signal tables can be used for a particular
> architecture.
> We 'fix' some of these behaviours so that an upgraded copy of bash
> can be built that works correctly on our distro.

I have fixed all the reported problems like this.  Did you send in
bug reports?

Chet
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