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Re: Tab completion of "\ ends catastrophically
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Tab completion of "\ ends catastrophically |
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Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:50:35 -0400 |
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On 3/21/10 12:21 AM, joscrei@umich.edu wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.0
> Patch Level: 33
> Release Status: release
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> Description:
> Attempting to tab complete:
> "\
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> ends in catastrophic failure. Either with a malloc message or the
> terminal crashing entirely
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> malloc: unknown:0: assertion botched
> free: start and end chunk sizes differ
> Aborting...
>
> Repeat-By:
> 1) Open bash
> 2) Type: "\ 3) Hit tab 4) Terminal will crash.
>
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> If I do: ls "\<tab>, I get the malloc message
This was fixed in bash-4.1.
Chet
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