Re: Infinite loop in globbing

[Greg Wooledge]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:00:14AM +0100, Roman Rakus wrote:
> $ locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=
> 
> $ echo $BASH_VERSION
> 4.2.7(1)-release
> 
> $ [$'\xFD'$'\xBA']
> ^C
> 
> The bash 4.2 is in infinite loop. The bash 4.1 work well.

Can you give more details about the setup here?  Does the glob match
any files or not?

In a NON-utf8 locale, with no matching files, I get:

imadev:~$ [$'\xFD'$'\xBA']
bash: [ýº]: command not found